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Published: March 29th 2013
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Sun Rise
But clouds were building The southern coastal plains and rolling hills of Victoria are famous for their dairy herds. In todays journey we will do a circuit west from Peterborough and later north to Timboon which is just a little bigger and better than the imaginary Timbuktu that we never visit because we can never find it. Not even Tom Tom can find these mythical locations. This is prime productive dairy country.
There was a bright sunrise made spectacular by an oncoming front. So the day was dull, windy, some showers, but that did not deter us from going look see.
Two of the campers had 9 month old puppies traveling with them, and it seemed like it was fun at first sight. The little white Westie so far has not responded well to puppy school lessons, whereas the bigger golden lab was very well mannered. Anyway, the two of them rolled and played for quite some time until the owners were worn out.
The first part of the journey took us past more of the Limestone Coast rocky foreshore. There are successive viewing places through The Bay of Martyrs and The Bay of Islands. This whole stretch is known as The
Westie and Lab at play
Both were on leads, but they got so tangled! Bay Of Islands National Park, and is about 30ks long. The colour of the formations changes along the coast. In this area much of the limestone is coloured orange/brown as distinct from the lighter colours at The Twelve Apostles. In one of the Bay of Islands pictures, look for an old sailing ship (rock formation) looking as if it is headed for peril.
This coast and on to Warrnambool has about 40 ship wrecks. Most from poor navigation or being caught with tidal movement and heavy southerly or south west winds. Some ships dropped sea anchors but still they were not able to withstand the storms and currents.
We turned inland and after a bit of dodgy navigation, arrived at Timboon. There is a French cheese maker here, but none of the locals knew where to find this shop, the Mousetrap. The locals apparently lack a liking of quality hand made soft cheese.
Eventually we found an address, shared that info with Tom Tom and in due course, without error we arrived right at the address.
The shop is set in rather romantic gardens with lovely rose beds, shelter trees, picnic tables, and they serve light
meals as well as have cheese tasting. Four out of four of us revelled in the brie cheese, right through to the more aged and harder cheeses. They do a triple cream cheese, and to my pallet, it was the only one which didn’t appeal. My Dr would be proud that I didn’t buy it as well as it has a 75% fat content. They had just added a variation on a Gouda cheese to their range, and it really hit the mark. It was a small batch and everyone who tried it said YUM! We bought three varieties of these French cheeses in small blocks for cheese and cracker events.
The run back to Peterborough was a breeze, but we did do a diversion to The Grotto, a little east of Peterborough. I think we were there at low tide, so missed the spectacular plume of water that shoots through the hole at higher tides. On the other hand, we have a beautiful rock pool with reflections. The wave motion here once again is spectacular.
Tomorrow we drive to Koroit to a little camp for the Easter weekend. We may not post much, because we will probably
do little!
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Rough coastline
Great photos again rough coastline and seas we notice how rough the coast is and how blue the seas nearly always. Some sun but a rather grey day here having a quiet one. Love from US2@136