Month: March 2021
A Stop at the ‘Prom’ and Then Home
Yesterday was the last day of our adventure around Eastern Victoria. We left Bairnsdale in good time and pushed on to Tidal River at Wilsons Promontory where we planned to spend as much of the day as we could. About halfway between Bairnsdale and the ‘Prom’, we travelled through the little town of Yarram. This […]
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Bairnsdale
There isn’t much of Cabbage Tree Creek – just the General Store and a Men’s Shed. Yesterday, we settled our bill at ‘Bird Songs’ and headed west on our way to Bairnsdale – the largest town in far eastern Victoria. Along the way, we saw a sign pointing to the Stony Creek Trestle Bridge. We […]
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The Final Part of The Great Alpine Road
Today, we drove about 250 kilometres from Omeo to Cabbage Tree Creek. We left Omeo at about 9.30 am and stopped off at a shop in the Main Street to buy a newspaper. There was quite a line up of prestige cars in the street and they weren’t the usual vehicles driven by locals – […]
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Over The High Plains and Down to Omeo
Today’s weather was very different to the day before when we had warm weather and sunny skies. By contrast, this morning we awoke to find low cloud on the peaks and a bracing cold wind. Clouds were scudding across the plains and visibility was quite limited. There were e a number of Aboriginal tribes that […]
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Up To The High Country
This morning we left the town of Bright with its manicured parks and well maintained gardens to drive just 60 kilometres to the ski resort at Falls Creek. It was a short distance but with lots of exploring, it took us a good part of the day. This is the third day of our nine […]
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Time Makes A Big Difference
This week is the anniversary of the WHO declaring the Coronavirus to be a pandemic one year ago. At that time, we were cautiously doing a tour of the art silos of northern Victoria. At this time, we are doing another trip across the Victorian ‘High Country’ after giving away any possibility of taking our […]
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The Many Birds in Our Garden
We have survived our last five days of lockdown that we had thrust upon us a two weeks ago. With all that went before, we have been in good practice with lockdowns and we know how to handle them. Unsurprisingly, even though it was only planned for five days, the supermarkets were once again stripped […]
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