More Eden

Hi everyone! We are now at Eden in NSW & loving it.  We are having lovely weather as you can see from the photos below.  The caravan park is beautiful, in the 2 photos below Grae is standing by the pool, our van is to the left, behind the palm trees. We went to the beach yesterday, I had a swim with my shark then we had a picnic lunch. We went for a drive to Green Cape lighthouse- the road in was about 20 kms of dirt & was like driving on corrugated iron the whole way but worth the trip as the views were spectacular.


We will stay here until Thurs week then a short hop up the road to Tathra for another 2 weeks.  On the whole we have had great weather, our jeans have only seen the light of day about twice!


Mum, click on the photos once or twice to enlarge.

The location of lighthouse

Finally NSW and Eden

Welcome to NSW

The Car and caravan ready to cross the border about 40kms to Eden

Eden

its a short trip to Eden today 70 kms

Mallacoota

Stopping at Cann River for morning tea, the van and car look good

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View of Mallacoota ocean beach with Gabo to the right

We came accross a museum ww2 Radar Bunker installation, near the Mallacoota air port it had early history of the area including the light house at Gabo Island ,

The Radar Bunker

Some more pics of the ocean views

the biggest 5 th wheeler we have seen complete gryo copter and motor bikes its a great unit







Arrival Mallacouta

A short trip from Orbost to Mallacouta

Last Day in Orbost

we spent our last Day in Orbost visiting a Local iconic pinic area on the Snowy about 40kms from Orbost. The drive to this location on a 4 wheel drive type road  through some very rough country
People were walking accross the river in this location, Prior to being dammed it would have been several meters deep here
We were sitting on a park bench having a pinic lunch

Great Phone Photos

The view over looking orbost from a near by lookout

The Township has tow famous citizens ,

Drive to Marlo

Today we have a nice day touring around the sites of Marlo, view of boat lanuch area

The Snowy River  meets the ocean

Below are a few viddeos at Marlo of various view of the Snowy entering the ocean.

Orbost

Our camp site at orbost

The park is very open and clean and whem arrived it was very quite, From 5 to 6pm is started to fill with over night travellers

A view of park surrounds



Travel Day 19-01-2012 Bairnsdale to Orbost 89.6 km (about 1 hour 9 mins)

Day trip to Lakes Entrance

Lake tyres view from the Pub decking, looking out over the sand bars to the ocean

The Rip at lakes entrance viewed from the road into lakes.

A short video from the table we were sitting at for lunch.It was a beautifull day temperature aroun 30

Om the way back from we stopped at a look out call Red Bluff where we could see Oil rigs in the distance.

Bairnsdale and surounding area

Metung- View from the Metung Pub 

Free camping in the middle of nowhere- this is not us , the track in was a bit hairy, especially when we met a truck!

 

Views of the little village of Dargo in the high country north of Bairnsdale We had a picnic lunch near the free camping area, way down a dirt track a few kms past dargo on the Great Alpine way.

St Mary's Catholic Church in Bairnsdale-Ceiling completly covered in paintings.

Travel Progress

Our Trip to the East Coast commenced on the 09/01/2012 to Bairnsdale with an overnight stop in Warragul

Leave Bairnsdale the 19/01/12

The Map below will cover our progress over the forth coming months



Back to Ballarat

A view of lake wendouree with water and wild life aplenty

A view of our caravan park lake area

Avenue of Honor, The Arch has just recieved a major restoration and looks great it brought back memories driving down the tree filled avenue

Our stay at Beaufort is comming to an end shortly and we are moving down Gippsland way

Cooling off In The Lake

Sunday in Beaufort the temperature reach about 37 c. Ginnys sister Chris had come for a drive from melbourne and had lunch with us.

After lunch they decided to take a dip in the lake to cool off

note Jaws is also starring