Day 3

Today we drove through to Mount Gambier, only 164 kilometres from Port Fairy, it was raining quite heavily and the rain has been off and on all day.  It has also been quite cold.  This is the first time we have experienced rain with this van, and at least we do not appear to have any leaks.   We set up camp in the Mount Gambier Central Caravan Park, not the best park we have been on but it is only for one night and it was quite cheap.  We drove out to the Blue Lake this afternoon, which at the moment is navy blue in colour.  Apparently in winter it turns grey.  We met a couple from Werribee South in the caravan park, they also have a Jayco Sterling but it is a 25 foot van.  They have kindly invited us over for a roast dinner tonight (Yum).

Day 2

We drove through to Port Fairy yesterday, deciding not to stop overnight in Warnambool.  It was a long drive and we were both rather tired when we got here.  Today we have had a great day.   This morning we went for a one hour bike ride around  the wharf and this afternoon we did a walk around Griffiths Island which was very interesting.  The weather has been beautiful.  We have been to Port Fairy a couple of times before but have never seen around the wharf area.  The scenery was really good.  We visited a place where we stayed with Catherine, Sharon, Beryl and Ted about thirty years ago.  I wonder if the girls can remember it.  It was the old ANZ bank and we stayed there for a weekend when my nephew was getting married.  The photograph of the boat is a recreated Portuguese or Spanish caravel named the Notorious. It has been constructed from all reclaimed timber and has been created single handedly by Graeme Wylie.