Warnambool to Bendigo

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Well, its a sad day today. We left our little Jakey at school in Melbourne. He is happy to be their and the school is fantastic. He does his football training 4 times a week and the school football team is associated with the Western Bulldogs. They train at Victoria University and the school itself has great facilities. A 50 metre indoor pool, huge gym, Tennis courts and being built this year indoor badminton courts, basketball courts, spa and sauna, Rehab and fitness testing room. The biggest government development for a specialist sports school in Aust. Also very multi cultural.

The rest of us are staying in Bendigo with Relies. We travelled from Warnambool where we saw the shipwreck coast, The 12 Apostles ( 7 left ) and Loch Ard Gorge , inland to Mortlake and stayed with another relie. A bit off a blast from the past, I spent a lot of my holidays as a kid staying on Aunty Edna's farm. We took the kids thier to show them. They watched my cousins shearing and Kassidy was not impressed. She got quite upset by the rough treatment of the sheep. We drove onto Ballarat and visited yet another relie. They have been doing our family tree, which I helped to fill in quite a bit and visited a few cemetries where longs lost relies were buried. I am related to half of Victoria , Aren't they lucky!

We all had a lovely day visiting my Friend Sarah and her family at their farm in Lancefield. Sarah and I were born 3 weeks apart ( her being much older than me )next door to each other. So, we have been friends for almost 40 years! Days like that don't come along often enough.

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Photos

Sarah and Family at Lancefield
Days like this don't happen often enough

Oil Rig, Portland
Never seen one of these before!

The Breakwater at Warnambool
A Tad Windy I reckon!

Shearing
Shearing near Mortlake, My 4th cousin Stewart in front.