Night 2 in the camper this time in the caravan park at Warragul, another cold one outside but comfortable again inside.

The morning was foggy again, must be a Victorian thing…. Making the coffee so the bride didn’t need to get up too early, I spotted a bloke from the cabin over the road doing yoga warmups on the wet grass….in pajamas….without shoes…. What ever rows your boat I suppose.

The drive down to Geelong was easy enough, but very annoying with the speed limit changing more often than Trump does denials making it a little bit tedious. Lots of traffic as you would expect with trucks seemingly making up a high number.

Arriving early at the loading area, we waited, and waited, and waited. They said that checking was at 4:15pm, we drove onto the boat just after 5pm. Despite all of that, it was easy once on board and being on board was a good place to be. Our deluxe room was very good, large and even had a bottle of wine! Dinner was ok (for the $27.50). The ride across was smooth and comfortable.

Off the boat and we went and caught up with our old mates at Port Sorrell, got some great tips on what to do while in Tassie. After coffee we took off and found that there are not many straight roads around here at all! The 100kph speed limit seems to be more of a challenge more than anything else….)

Our first stay over was in a donation camping for a couple of nights at Scottsdale – the showers were $3 for 4 minutes – neither Jo or I ran the shower out!. We based ourselves there for a trip around this district where we looked at the local sites and attractions such as Bridport (Fishing and freight), Beechford (little holiday village where the pins hitting the floor can be heard) and Georgetown. The later had a few places to check out including the Pilots Museum at Low Head (ok….) and the Bass and Flinders Museum (very excellent with its exhibits, life sized boat replica’s  not to mention the walkthrough with the historians). Scottsdale itself had a tree carving in the middle of town commemorating the war hero’s of the district.

From Scottsdale it was off to St Helens via Legerwood and Ringarooma. Legerwood has tree sculptures in town – after WW1 the locals planted a pine tree for each of the 7 men who didn’t return. In 2005 the trees were just about done so a chainsaw bloke carved a scene into every tree that was allocated a man who didn’t return based on their photos and stories  – stunningly good work.

Next stop was at Pyengana for lunch and cheese buying (there’s a surprise…). Just up the road we dropped the trailer off at the local Rec ground so we could visit Ralph Falls (at 800 plus metres right on the edge of a gorge) and St Columbus Falls (discovered in the 1850’s by the kids of an Irish woman freed convict – the kids not much older than 10 were exploring their backyard when they found the falls). From there it was back Pyengana (around 140 metres) to pick up the trailer and head off to St Helens before the rain came in.

Still with us? Stay tuned for Part 3 where we gate crash a wedding and check out more!