Road Trip No. 3

      Thursday 24th October 2019

      Day 3.

      Waking up to a clear blue sky and a forecast top of 32 we headed back to Port Welshpool after booking into the Long Pier Caravan Park and dumping the van we headed to the Anges waterfalls just 14 Kms into the hills.

Anges Waterfalls 

We then took the scenic road to Toora pass the Toora wind farm then back to Port Welshpool.

The Toora wind farm.

View from the scenic road of the low farm land.

The village of Toora

Baiting up on the Long Pier

It was the to try and see if we could catch dinner of the Long Pier but with no luck so plan B was put into effect and 

it was to the Pier Port Hotel for a great dinner of fish and chips.

Love

 Len and Val

Day Trip No.3

      Day. 2

      Sunrise at Port Albert was to a sea fog something Val had never seen before and the camera could not come into action fast enough after breakfast we   headed to Yarram just a short 15 minutes up the road where we had lunch with Michael.

After lunch we headed up the Tarra Valley Road to the Tarra Bulga National Park to Balook then a round trip back to Yarram via the Blackwarry Scenic Rd then finishing of the day with dinner at The Yarram Country Club.

The sea fog Port Albert 

Lone fisherman 

Sea bird coming in for breakfast 

Got his breakfast 

The pelican also go his breakfast 

Val on the Tarra river

Tarra a little further up stream 

Tall gums at the beginning of the Blackwarry Scenic Rd

The view of the Tarra valley with Yarram in the back ground

The Tarra River flowing through the low level farm lands

Love 

Len and Val 

Road Trip No.3

  

      Day. 1

      

      Leaving home we avoided the Tullamarine and Monash freeways and used the Eastern freeway onto Springvale Road and joined the Monash there

      A good move as we where in Cranebourne in hour ten stopping at Korumburra for a couple of things we forgot then headed to Port Albert for fish          

      and chips from the Wild Fish nice and crispy then watched the su set over the mangroves.

End of the day

Love 

Len and Val

Fiji Holiday

  Day 1.

Scott dropped us off at Tullamarine at 1945 at 0800 I received a text telling us our flight had been delayed and had been rescheduled for a 0100 departure 

One hour and twenty minutes late so we now have a five hour wait the plane landed at 2350 so it looked like our 0100 departure was going ahead.

We started boarding at 0030 it was still looking good then at 0100 the captain advised us that there was a little technical problem and should be fixed in 

10 minutes 40 minutes later we moved making our flight exactly 120 minutes late.

Our flight was good arriving in Nadi at 0800 after getting our luggage and our bus we left the airport at 0937 it was a two hour drive to Naviti Resort

Our room was worth the wait we look out over the lawn to the coral reef at low tide and high tide the waves break over the reef.

   Our room at Naviti Resort 

  The view through the closed door out over the gardens 

  Doors open 

Now for a good nights sleep

Love 

Len and Val

  

Road Trip No.2

    Wednesday 17th July 2019

    Day 42.

    Stawell - Essendon

    Leaveing Stawell 0945 on the last leg of our trip a little early than planed but it was an experience  we saw a lot  in the 42 Days we traveled 8075 Kms used 1422.12 Lts of diesel at a cost of $2201.15 and met a lot of follow travelers some I hope we keep in contact with arriving home at 1145.
                                                                        Love
                                                                  Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Tuesday 16th July 2019

    Day 41.

    Tailem Bend to Stawell

    We have not had a start to the day like this since we left Lighting Ridge it is raining and did most of the stopping at Dimboola for lunch.

And stopping the night at Stawell.

                                                         Love 

                                                     Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Monday 15th July 2019

    Day 40.

    Crystal Brook to Tailem Bend

    To day we left the main road and traveled through the green country side and the wine area of Clare and Barossa valleys of South Australia by the same time taking a short cut to Tailem Bend.

The Flinders Rangers 

Along the country road

Willie still riding shotgun

We were not the only New Age on the road

Not far out of Angaston

The main street of Angaston

Love 

Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Sunday 14th July 2019

    Day 39.

    Woomare - Crystal Brook

Leaving Woomera at 0930 again the sky was bright and clear a little wind and it was a little cool topped up at Spuds at Pimba then out onto the highway and headed south stopping at Mountain Range View rest stop before heading onto Port Augusta for lunch and another top up of fuel then onto Crystal Brook for the night.

Mountain Range View rest stop

At the rest stop

First green grass in 38 days

Flinders Ranges

The first rain in 30 days

Love Len and Val

Road Trip No.2

    Wednesday 3rd July 2019

    Day 28

    Camooweal - Barkly Station

    Today we started of at the usual time of 1000 and we went for a little drive around the free camp site just out of town at what is know the Francies Billabong or No 1 Billabong then as we got onto the highway and got about 5 Kms down the road I notice the low coolant warning apear on the dash so we returned to Camooweal and got 5Lts it took just over a litre we the may our way to Barkly Station with on more problems arriving at 1400 booked in set up then checked the coolant we had lost about another litre.

Road Trip No.2

    Saturday 13th July 2019

    Day 38.

  Coober Pedy - Woomera

    On the road again we left Coober Pedy at 0945 heading for Woomera down Highway 87 even though we where further down the road the scenery was still the same flat barren and dry the only thing that we notice was that there was less road kill than two years ago and have not seen a kangaroo or Emu this side of Mount Isa and less Eagles as well.
We stopped at Glendambo for lunch and a top up some people try to make it to the next fuel stop hoping the price will be cheaper and they run out of fuel half way. Arriving at 1450 and did a load of washing the bar opened at 1600 so we went and had a couple of drinks with our travelers.

R.F.D.S. air strip Between Coober Pedy and Glendambo Hwy(87)

Eldery cyclist heading north Pimba to Glendambo Hwy 87(over65)

Lake Hart

Lake Johnston

Road stop at Coober Pedy

Opal mining field Coober Pedy

Egale in flight

End of to days drive

Eagle at tucker time

Love

Len and Val

Road Trip No 2.

    Friday 12/7/2019

    Day 37.

    Coober Pedy

    Today was another day of sitting in the sun and relaxing and just waiting for the phone to ring
when 1600 camewe decieded to walk down and see how it was going val was Optimistic I was not on arriving Bull said sorry I have lost your phone number but I knew you would come Val said is it good news or badhe said good you should have the look on Vals face mine would have been much the same so it was top up with fuel get a pizza on the way home have a beer watchthe footy and tomorrow we are out of here.

                                                    Love
                                              Len and Val

Road Trip No 2.

    Thursday 11th July 2019

    Day 36.

    Coober Pedy

    This is day 5 in Coober Pedy a little cool in the morning but warms up to a pleasant 21 degrees and no dust today walk down to see what progress has been made on the car the part as arrived from Adelaide and he hoped to have it finished today well 1700 came and no phone call so hopefully it will come tomorrow if not we will be here till monday at the best we then finished our walk by visiting the Italian Australia Members Club.
After lunch we empty the potty but we had to walk it across the main street to the dump.
Val went with another at the park down to the Catholic Church of St Peter and St Paul in the main street.
Then finished the day with a loverly dinner of roast lamb and baked potatoes Val a glass of wine and myself a VB

Coober Pedy from the hill top

Another scene of Coober Pedy

And another Scene

Inside the St Peters anmd St Pauls Church

Another one

And the out side

Love Len and Val