Our Last Weekend

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23/2/18

It is our last weekend. Charlotte and Ollie decided to make it a long weekend and took Friday off work so that we could travel to Wilsons Promitory. We found a house that we could rent, in a town called Inverloch and booked it via Booking.com. Before we set off, we thought it was a good idea to have a decent breakfast inside us. The cafe suggested by C & O was round the corner from their flat but you would not find it unless you knew. This cafe had a good business purely by word of mouth, mainly by locals. The menu was very different with lots of food combinations that I would not have thought of. I eventually ordered my breakfast that was ham hock on a bed of cauliflower cheese with burnt garlic and lots of other things that I have forgotten. It was delicious. Feeling a little brave, I followed Ollie's lead and also ordered a juice called " Blood of the Earth " that contained, amongst other things, beetroot, orange, turmeric and spinach. The C.O. ordered breakfast tea. After a very filling breakfast, we drove the 90 miles to Inverlock. After an initial administrative glitch we gained access to the house which was great. It had 3 large double bedrooms and a large open lounge/ diner with a very well fitted kitchen. Loads of room for us all but no WIFI so I got a little behind with blogging.

Inverloch is a small seaside town on the Bass Strait with quite a homely feel to it. The weather was mixed. It was raining when we left Melbourne and spotted a little and was overcast when we arrived but cleared during the day. We decided to go to explore as the weather forecast was for casting a " Cold Change " which sees a change of wind direction from the south followed by a drop in temperature of about 10 degrees C. The locals quite welcome this sort of weather as it gives them some respite in a hot summer.





We visited four really beautiful but different coves with sandy beaches separated by rocky headlands. The beaches were all along Venus Bay and accessed by steep steps that appeared to get a lot steeper when we left. There is a lot of archaelogical interest in the rocks that are exposed when the tide goes out and there have been many fossilised dinosaur bones discovered in organise digs and by amateurs. This is a stunning piece of coastline which is part of the Bunurong National Park. The Bunurong were the indigenous people that inhabited this land before the Europeans killed most of them off, either by their guns, or the diseases they introduced. This sort of history is all too familiar.

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Photos

Breakfast
Blood of the earth juice

Bunurong National Park
A staircase from the beach.

Bunurong National Park
An interesting beach

Bunurong National Park
A typical cove

Bunurong National Park
Eagles Nest rock formation