Mar 7, 2013 - Beaches - This is Australia!

Today is Phil and Lil's wedding anniversary and we wish them a very happy anniversary. Marriage is to be celebrated. Today we took the boat around to the beach opposite town. It's very muddy here but we anchored the boat and walked to the bridge and over to the Ocean side. Oh my! How lovely it is. The beach is magnificent. The sea was pounding surf. The surf was strong but there were people in it braving the waves. It looked like the currents were strong too. An Irish lady was lying on the beach baking like a lobster. Her husband saw me...

Mar 6, 2013 - Water police

We're learning the importance of all the boating terms you hear. Port, Starboard, safety equipment, flares, green poles, red poles, depth etc. We're having trouble with the clove hitch. That still needs some work. When Aaron did it it looked so simple! We took the boat up one of the channels across the Entrance waters and on our way across to the town side the Water Police, in a boat 20 times bigger and faster than ours, saw us and made a fast beeline for us. Fortunately for us we had everything up to date, except maybe the waterproof torch...

Mar 5, 2013 - Lakes Entrance

This morning we had breakfast with Tarsh. Ash went to work very early. Then we headed off to Lakes Entrance. We'd been told to go to Cunningham Arm so we found that and went along by the water looking for a caravan park. We went right to the end to a place called The Riviera Resort and Recreational camp or something like that. We were looking for a place where we could easily launch the boat. We had a spot right on the beach where we could moore the boat. It's not nearly as flash as it sounds but just did us perfectly. We set up the boat...

Aug 22, 2012 - Lakes Entrance

Lakes Entrance – what a place! Yes it’s a pretty town and we enjoyed it but we experienced a few strange happenings there. #1 – Barry and I went to Lakes Entrance Bowls Club for lunch. We both chose a meal from the specials board for $7.70 each. We were a bit taken aback when the girl asked Barry if he was hungry or not, did he want a full meal or half a meal. He answered that he wanted a full meal. “Oh, well that is $15.00” she said. Apparently the roast meal marked on the board for $7.70 was for a half meal only. I got my lasagne (marked...

Dec 22, 2011 - Last stop before Bear gully and meeting up with KT and Andy

Yesterday we set off from Jindbyne at about 10.30am to drive to Lakes Entrance via the Barry Way feeling a little apprehensive as we had had different advice about tackling this route as it consists of 80km of twisting dirt track but we had also been told it was beautiful and very wild so we decided to give it a go. As it had not rained it was dusty and dry and not slippery so in fact it was not difficult at all as long as you went slowly and avoided the worst of the potholes. We only saw 2 cars and a tourist minibus going in the opposite...

Sep 10, 2011 - Lakes Entrance

We had rented a car in Sydney and drove to Canberra. The driving distance from Canberra to our next major stop, Melbourne, was nearly 500 miles as we wanted to drive along the coast instead of driving directly southwest from Canberra to Melbourne. So we needed a place to stop overnight. After doing a lot of research using Google maps to identify towns that had decent lodging, we chose Lakes Entrance. It was about halfway between Canberra and Melbourne, had a good number of lodging options, and was described as a tourism destination. On the...

Jun 18, 2011 - Lakes Entrance - June 15-19

We have had a lovely few days here in gorgeous Lakes Entrance but our time is up and we move on tomorrow, heading in to NSW. The weather has been kind to us until today - cold, but sunny and then the rain and wind came in today, so we caught up on washing and shopping. We spent a lovely few hours on a Lakes Cruise, which included lunch at a pub on the Lakeside. We have walked the length of the township, which in mainly situated on the road beside the waters. The impressive chainsaw carvings along the waterfont commemorate WW1 soldiers,...

Feb 8, 2011 - The Journey Begins

Day 1 - Tuesday 8Th Feb 2011 The journey begins. Finally the day had come… after a long countdown at work and then a drunken Day on the Green, the time had come to set off on our great adventure! As is our way we slept in, not even the excitement of the trip can get us up early. Not surprisingly before we left Lee needed some medical attention, so this further delayed our leaving time… I also may not have helped with a last minute search for a solution to my driving related hamstring problems. By the time we finished packing, realised we...

Nov 9, 2010 - Lakes entrance

9th November Lakes Entrance Spent the morning walks around the many beaches. Proper White sands and clear water with enough surf for surfers but oldy every beach had a huge amount of dead blackbirds washed up on shore. Hundreds of them, we made up a horor story to account for it. We visited squeeky beach, whiskey bay and found a hilside made entirely of huge sand dunes, realy high and when they reahed ground level there was just instantly British looking vegetation. Wierd. Matt and I climbed it and slid all the way down. We were knackered...

Oct 10, 2010 - Lakes Entrance

We had a lovely drive down from Canberra crossing over 2 borders (ACT into NSW then into Victoria). We stopped off for coffee at Cooma where we went into the Tourist Bureau and discovered just how close we were to the Snowy Mountains. We were very tempted with the idea of driving in to Thredbo but after being told there would be very little snow around – just slush – we decided against it. Yet another thing to add to the ‘must do later’ list! We continued down to Cann River where we had contemplated staying for the night but decided to go...

Aug 26, 2010 - Lakes Entrance

Hello, This morning we decided that we shouldn't have the possible extra night at Merimbula as the winds in Lakes Entrance are supposed to be gale force tomorrow and best to be here rather than driving through. Barry said that if the van starts to move around too much we can fill the water tanks to use as stabilisers. At midnight last night the winds were quite strong and this morning we found that the van had actually moved a bit! No wonder we had trouble sleeping LOL! We packed up leisurely and left at 10.30. By the time we got to Cann...

Jan 5, 2010 - Travelling from Sydney to Melbourne

So, we left Sydney area about a week ago and have travelled south to Melbourne all down the coast route - it has been amazing, what wonderful scenery - hundreds of miles of sandy, unspoilt beaches, some long and straight, some in little rocky coves or inlets, all delightful, and very quiet. I guess there are just so many beaches and not enough people to populate them all! We have stopped off at many places, including Kiama, Shoulharbour, Pebbly Beach, Batemans Bay, Bermagui, Merimbula and Eden. We spent our New Years Eve in Eden, which is...