a mini adventure

It has been 3 weeks now since I arrived back home.   It does take some adjusting to the "busy-ness" of life.  I have had many catch up with friends.  I have been very busy in the garden -mowing and weeding and the attempt at growing vegetables.  I was lucky the have help in the garden from friends.  I don't think some vegie seedlings like me.  Or is it the slugs or birds that eat them.

A friend asked me to camp at a family property last week end so Myrtle and I went off again but not very far this time and only for a night.  Considering it is November it was a very cold night.  It was lovely in the bush next to a beautiful little creek and cooking over the fire (thank you Laine and Carlie for your company).  We had dahl and rice and a few drinks here and there and choc coconut slice.  (I think my blogs always end up being about food).  And a funny half hour of trying to get a lid off the rice pot that had become stuck and many different attempts to get it off when finally done with the help of Elaine's relatives that had come past to look after the cows.  They managed the fulcrum/lever method  to eventually get the lid off.

getting the bonfire going before restrictions start

The lids off we can rice

yummy dahl 

So I intend to keep having adventures because life is one big adventure and very much what you make off it.

Along the way and home pics

Wannon Falls

Home

Home!!!

After a long drive on Friday (in lots of traffic as it was Melbourne cup weekend) I arrived home about 7pm very tired.
After sleeping at the bush camp spot in Wanonna Falls I went down to the falls for a look - they are quite stunning.  Then drove home through Hamilton, Dunkeld, Lake Bolac (to visit the mum of a friend in Stanley), then Ballarat, Daylesford and cut across country to the highway north.
The country was looking very special this time of year and they must have had a lot of rain over that way.  The south Grampians looked stunning in the morning mist.  I hadn't been to some of these areas before and would like to go back sometime for a look and walk around the Grampians.  There is certainly lots a beautiful place in Victoria so maybe my next trip might be to a Victorian destination.
It is very weird being home after such a long time away and will take a bit of adjusting.
It has taken all day to get everything out of the van so a tidy up tomorrow and then into the garden.
Thank you for sharing this journey with me - it has been such a wonderful experience for me.
I will add some more photos over the next few days.  xxxxxx

Another zoo pic

At Adelaide Zoo

Tootling along

Robe was a friendly little town.  I went to the Caledonian for a drink and dinner (they had a roast and cider special).    It was built in about 1856 I think.  Looks like an old English pub.  It was very busy and heaps of kids all dressed up for Halloween.
  So windy this morning and not very pleasant for a walk.  This is the coldest I have been in about 4 months!  They have some lovely shops and cafe's.  The Providore was very nice and great coffee and sourdough bread.  The caravan park is probably the best I have stayed in over the past 4 months.  Great facilities and really good camp kitchen and great views and right on the beach and a walk into town.  (Seavu caravan park).
Everybody in Robe recommended a drive through Beachport.   I stopped in a little gift shop and the woman there was very friendly and had only opened her business a few months ago.  I will look for her card and mention it was it was a great little place.   It is a pretty little place on the water with a long pier but again very windy and not pleasant for a walk.  It was gusty while driving and very hard to keep the van on the road again.
After Robe I drove through Millicent to Mt. Gambier.  I had been to Mount Gambier when I was 6 years old and I remembered the Blue Lake.  I also drove out to Mount Schank.  It is a volcano hole and you walk up heaps of steps to the top and can walk around it.  Again very windy and I am creeped out by heights but enjoyed the view into the volcano (I think it erupted 5,000 years ago).
I also had a look at the sinkholes with the gardens in them.  A nice town.  Driving out of Mount Gambier through Casterton and Coleraine the countryside was lush and green and cows and sheep munching away.   Beautiful undulating hills - a pleasant drive.  I have pulled up at camps spot 642.  Very nice and off the highway at Wannon Falls. 

Robe is such a lovely place!

Robe - Beach from the Seavu caravan park

Panda at Adelaide Zoo - me in the reflection