Hitting the road...

again after such a busy time was great. We had been so busy during the previous month that I forgot to mention our biggest highlight. Auntie Shirley's 80th birthday. Bill's Auntie lives in Frankston & we joined other family members to celebrate the big day with her. We caught up with Bill's cousins & met their children. As we were living away for so long we had never met the next generation. A wonderful day was had by all & Auntie Shirley looked like the Matriarch she has become. Driving home that night from Frankston seemed like a road trip but compared to our adventure next week it was just a tiny trip.

Leaving home on the Friday morning we drove to Lakes Entrance stopping at Yarragon for lunch and Wah De Lock at Statford for a reviving coffee later on. A walk around the waterfront & the estuary reacquainted us with the lovely tranquil place it is. A great night was had at the local RSL watching live music and a group of dancers. We wandered home still smiling at some of their moves. Bill got up early for some sunrise photo's, I didn't but went for a walk a bit later on. We left then to continue our way East to Mallacoota, somewhere neither of us had been before.

We stopped at Nowa Nowa to see the gorges, small but picturesque. Orbost, where we stopped at the Grandview lookout where you can see the Snowy River winding through the country on it's way to the ocean at Marlo. That was our next stop to see where the mighty Snowy meets the sea. Marlo is a little fishing village with lots of holiday homes & campsites. We followed the coast rd to Cape Conran & then went 'offroad' through the State forests to see Yeerung gorge. Back to Hwy No 1 & lunch at Cann River. It is here that the Monaro Hwy meets the Princes (is that where the car came from?). Straight on from there and we turned off at Genoa for the last 19 kms into Mallacoota.

Mallacoota is Victoria's most eastern town and at 521kms east of Melbourne is also equidistant from Sydney. A very pretty little hamlet on the edge of the quaintly named Bottom Lake it was just the place to take a few hours to do some peaceful bird watching in the many beaches and Stateforests in the area.

So while we go and have a look around, I'll leave you all here

until next time..........