Woke up to a very overcast day with the rain threatening to belt down at any time. So we had our breakfast and started to pack away the trailer in record time, which was a good thing as it started to rain just as we were finishing and hitching up the car ready to move out.
Setting Tommy for Lakes Entrance just as we were leaving it really started to rain quite hard which continued for a couple of hours until we were well clear of the city limits and heading out along the freeway to the Gippsland.
Our journey took us through Wonthaggi, Leongatha, Sale, Stratford on Avon, Bairnsdale and finally Lakes Entrance, having tried to follow the coastal road all the way. Every little town and village had so much to offer in the way of walks, boating, fishing and holiday entertainment for all the family.We could have spent months here…………. perhaps another time.
We passed at lot of bikies on their way to Phillip Island for the motor bike racing being held there.
Everywhere was so green with folding hills and the distant alpine mountains of the dividing range.
Many of the rivers were flowing and the dams full which must really please the farmers.
The lakes go from Sale all the way through to Lakes Entrance , and are known as the Gippsland Lakes and are the largest navigable inland waterway in Australia. The lakes Wellington, Victoria and King cover 320 km of shoreline and encompass 340 Sq km which could take you months to explore.
Having settled in to the caravan park we walked out to the waterfront to see all the fishing boats and the hand carved wooden sculptures along the way.
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