Blogs from Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 4

Photos were taken last April 7, 2007 This trip was meant to be a group outing but most backed out so I ended up being stuck with the boys. We left Melbourne at 6am, our rendezvous point was St Kilda Marina. The drive took 4 hours to Metung. We had a pitstop along the way, I think it was at Sale. Upon arrival at Metung, we bought our fishing license and decided to have lunch only to realize lunch isn't served until 11. So we just walked around the sleepy fishing town. We ate at one of the cafes along the pier - ordered the usual fish & chips. Having never fished before, we spent 30 minutes just trying to figure out how to hook the line to the fishing pole. Hahaha what a total failure ... read more

Day 21 - Box Hill North to Lakes Entrance. 3 hrs 58 minutes - 319 kms incl diesel stop! First things first, a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our niece Gabrielle - have a lovely day! We both slept really well last night despite us finding a great episode of Only Fools & Horses on fox-tel when we climbed into bed! Thank goodness for TVs with a sleep button! We were up by 8am and into the normal routine of clearing up from the night before! The girls are already playing in the family room and Grant is asleep on the couch - all is good! It’s not long before Anna comes in and tells us off for clearing up but we like to do our bit to help. We finish off loading stuff into the caravan ... read more

Hi everyone We had a great 4 weeks in NZ catching up with as many family and friends as we could. It was great to spend time with the grandchildren (we did a lot of catch up babysitting!), and attend Robin and Bryan's 80ths and Rick's 60th birhdays. We arrived back in Melbourne to fire smoke like a thick smog. Chris' Aussie credit card wouldn't work when we went to pay the taxi back to the caravan park (lucky we had enough cash), so the next day we went to the local bank and organised a replacement card. With a week to wait for it, we decided to go south east to Lakes Entrance. We came here Wednesday, motorway most of the way for the first few hours. The smoke haze lasted most of the way, ... read more

This is the last leg in this particular journey. Surprisingly to us, we were not yet anxious to finalise the trip. Still, all good things come to an end! Merimbula Merimbula established itself as another good destination. Staying at the Tween Waters caravan park allows you to walk to town, walk the beach to Merimbula or Pambula and there is a riding track that follows the highway to Pambula. The weather was good for most of the four night stay. We have been here many times so we concentrated on chilling out and doing less in the way of touristy things. We have revived our interest in cards with a nightly 'best of three' at both Crib and Euchre. Outcomes are mixed so no animosity has crept in. The drive to Lakes Entrance was nice and ... read more

19-1-8 lazy light rain, very early walk/spruik sleepy saturday morning. took in forty but. succumbed to kfc. then library and marina parkup another burgee to boat. much trash picked up. diesel spill in marina fouling the air. had another vision of gaia. then the rain drove me to pub. 20-1-8 majic moments i reached merimbula. early morning walk spotted wanda scared up a whole flock on mamula lake short track. speckled bark gums slender in the regrowth. some big beauties but. tea and day of fasting as evidence emerges that fasting is fantastic. ambling drive thru tracts of trees, thru bega to stand midtown for two hours. handwavers hot. heard of rock festival in the arvo and parkedup beach cliffside mild seabreeze sat shaded by parasol of cloud. surf crowd about. sticker on ute. looks like ... read more