More recent Travel

Here are links to the rest of this series: On to Melbourne Don't like our weather? Changes not always for the better The Way Back Some time ago a friend in Mallacoota commented that the outflow from the Broome St Lagoon was creating a mini-silt jetty.  He then explained what a silt jetty is and that the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere was close to Bairnsdale.  There is accommodation at the Eagle Point Cottages fairly near by. So wanting to break a trip to Melbourne, and to explore the Gippsland Lakes we decided to grab a cottage and see what we could see.  This also gave us a chance to play with Sheila, the satnav in the Mazda.  This was a little fraught - massive understatement - but I think we now have it more or less under control.  Fuel prices were "interesting".  Diesel at Mallacoota was $2.449/litre, United at Cann River $2.279 and United at Bairnsdale $2.159!  As I couldn't remember nor work out how far it was from Cann to Bairnsdale I got a ...

 We are about to head off on a trip to Adelaide.  I realised this was our first long trip since we left Carwoola  and it was obviously not suitable for either the Houses of FranMart or Mallacoota Weather and Wildlife.  My usual store of travel stories was Travels with a Tick Magnet, but we no longer have the small dog.  So here we are with a new blog. This is the planned route. The first stop in Halls Gap has two purposes: It breaks the trip to Adelaide; and Gives us a chance to spend a day in the Grampians. It will still be a long first day (750 km 8:45 hours) but better than 1250kms and 14 hours!  Its the only day much over 500kms.  We are hoping to make an early start since it will probably be getting dark by 1730 hrs and we'd like to have arrived before them. In retrospect it is interesting that I didn't notice, when publishing this post that the route from Leeton to Canberra doesn't go through Wagga.  This became apparent when consulting our ...