Blogs from Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia, Oceania

24/2/18 The weather was changeable and rained overnight but started to clear up in morning It was still warm ( about 28 degrees C ) but the forecast is still for the " Cool Change" to arrive today. We drove for just over an hour and entered the Wilson Promotory National Park. This park is big. It covers 50,000 hectares of land and also has 15,500 hectares of marine national park. This park caters for and encourages walking, camping, snorkelling, scuba diving and surfing. The park is known as "Prom Country". So we all went to the prom. We drove to a town called Tidal River which appears to be the centre for visitor facilities. These facilities appeared to include camping site, a shop but not food provisions, a cooked food kitchen and a visitors centre. ... read more

Wilsons Promontory (or The Prom as it is called by the locals) is one of Victoria's last wilderness areas and has been a National Park for over 100 years. It is located at the southernmost tip of the big island and offers spectacular scenery of huge granite mountains, open forest, rainforest, sweeping beaches and rugged coastlines. Great bushwalks extend from under an hour to multi-day walks and visitors can camp, caravan or stay in huts, cabins, wilderness retreats or lodges at Tidal River where there is a ranger station, visitor information centre, general store and take away food shop. Wilsons Promontory was connected to Tasmania by the land bridge which existed some 10,000 years ago and still has a lot of similar features to the north east coast of Tasmania specifically and Tasmania in general. It's ... read more

Why haven’t anyone told me to go to Australia before? No one told me that it’s full of long, white, sandy beaches with crystal clear blue water to swim in, beautiful mountains that’s scream out; climb me! AND friendly caring people that wants to help you even when you are not lost. Or maybe I havn't listened. I just thought it was hot hot hot and dust dust dust (more or less). But no no nooo… If you at the moment are in a country where it might be cold, rainy and dark.. you might not want to continuing reading. You might think that I’m repeating myself and blabbing on about how wonderful this continent is. But it’s a fact and it’s the truth. Its great and you should try to make your next destination “Down ... read more

Day 1609 8th April We woke in a comfortable bed at the Truman’s house in Inverloch, Victoria, today we needed to go and get the tyre repaired if possible, or replaced if not. I heard Ken go to work this morning about twenty to seven, I was out soon after and sat at the computer seeing how many people are again reading the blog, I feel I have got my enthusiasm back for it and am happy to write. Caroline soon followed and we looked on the internet where we could go to get the tyre repaired. Jodie said that we would be able to get it done in Wonthaggi, a large seaside town only 12k’s from Inverloch. We had our tea and departed as we wanted to get a good start on the day, and ... read more

After a spot of whale watching we left New South Wales and headed into Victoria. We camped for one night at a free camp on Ninety Mile Beach; yep it really was that long! The next day we set off early and drove all the way to the excellently named Wilson’s Promontory National Park, or as it’s more commonly known Wilson’s Prom. Wilson’s Prom is a spectacular peninsular which is Australia’s most southerly national park and contains the South Point, the southernmost point on the Australian mainland. After entering the park we enjoyed the 30km drive to the main town of Tidal River. It’s not really a town, just one big government run campsite with excellent facilities, a shop, and a small café and after paying the very reasonable fees we quickly found an excellent sheltered ... read more