After our quiet few days in the bush camp, we moved on down towards Melbourne and looked for a non caravan park to stay at. Not many have TV reception, but we were told, on the river at Winchelsea, we would be sure to get reception, and it wasn’t too far away. We found a nice spot, set up TV, no go !!.We were going to unhook the van for the day and go down the coast, and be back by 3.30 pm to watch Carlton play Collingwood. This is a very important game, you know! Only thing to do was take the caravan with us, sure to get reception down at Point Lonsdale.
From Port Arlington, you could see across to Melbourne, although it was typical Melbourne weather. We walked the jetties and watched the families having a Sunday fish.
From there it was down to Queescliffe, had a cuppa and look around.
Then down to the Point. We just had time to park the van , go for a walk out the Jetty and have a look at the Bunkers dug into the cliff face, during the wars, before going back to the van and watching that all important game of football. From the lighthouse on the point it is only a bit over 3 klms across the bay to Fort Nepean, on the Mornington Peninsular, where we had been a week ago.
Carlton lost.. It was almost dark when we left the headland , called into Woolworths for some groceries, as well as a cooked chook for dinner. A couple of hours later we were back at the Winchelsea river camp for the night. That night it started to rain and the weather forecast was for a cold snap. We settled for a couple of nights at the showground in Colac. Also was able to catch up with a long time friend. A couple of very cold and wet days, so electricity was welcome.
A cold sunset on our first night in Colac
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