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Travel Update

Submitted: Friday, Mar 28, 2008 at 19:30

Travel Update...
Submitted: Friday, Mar 28, 2008 at 19:38
Member - Uncle (NSW)
G'day everyone, well we finally left the goldfields of Victoria, and headed Sth, passing thru Ballarat, where it was a mere 10 Deg and raining, a little different to temps in the 40's a week earlier. We stayed a night at Lorne, which was very impressive and a good look around that after noon before setting up camp.
It rained most of the night and into the morning, so a quick packup, and we were off to see some of the wonders of The Great Ocean Rd. Cruised nice and slowly along admiring the view all the way to Apollo bay, where we stopped for nice bacon & egg roll for brekky.
Some of the roads and scenery down in this part of Victoria are just brilliant. we finally arrived at the Aire River West campgrounds, picked a great CT friendly site and set up for the nite. I wish we had of stayed another night, we liked the spot so much. Great spot for a paddle up the river for those with a kayak or canoe. We took a look up a 4wd trail, that led to the beach, and luckily chose not to head down onto it( which wasn't allowed anyway) and saw some nasty evidence of someone being horribly bogged possibly a week earlier. A fair bit of birdlife around too (feathered ones!!) We are just east of SA tonight after seeing the 12 apostles today, that was a highlight!! I think we've also seen about our 512th Wicked camper on the road!! That guy must be making a killing. Good on him. Should be in the gold fields of Kalgoorlie in around a week and a halfs time. Take care to all.
We are currently into our 42nd day on the road, some things that have been most useful to us so far while travelling:-

the Drifta DPOR kitchen
our 2 ARB flouro's
Coleman lounge chairs
Evakool 60 l fridge, even in 40 deg heat at Dunolly Vic
coleman shower unit ( a real winner!!)
Headlamps
Hanging shower packs
Baby wipes
Klaus's Roof bag For the camper basket by Infront camping
Simex Centepede ATX300's AT's on the CT
7db Broomstick Antenna, 3g/next g has been better for us so far in Central Vic, we'll see what happens with other states as we go i suppose.