Officially One Week On The Road

Well it's been over a week since Honey & I left our beautiful home in the Blue Mountains of NSW.

We are missing our little grand daughter and daughter sooo much! We're also missing our son and his new girlfriend who has recently arrived from Ireland...we would have loved to have spent more time with them and to help them out as they search for a new place to live in Sydney.

Our journey so far has been uneventful, except for the two bull ant bites I received at Boyd Town. Luckily they were only little nips and remembering how I'd been bitten many years ago at Kioloa on the NSW South Coast and ended up spending my last few dollars on a doctor's appointment because I needed a tetanus shot, I immediately applied white vinegar and lavender oil to the bites. So far only have little itchy spots where the ant nibbled.

We spent last night at Agnes River Rest Area just outside Welshpool parked just metres from the South Gippsland Highway. One thing I've noticed so far about Victorian Roads is that they become very quite after about tenish...unlike The Great Western Highway which snakes along the spine of The Great Dividing Range that is the Blue Mountains. At home traffic drones all night long. So Honey and I both managed to get a peaceful night's sleep until the sound of the various bird life woke us around dawn.

There are no facilities at this rest area, no toilets, no showers, no water, just picnic tables and a barbeque, oh and great mobile phone reception, so we spent a few hours on the internet last night to pass away the time and also called home to catch up with family.

Earlier we had called in to Port Albert, a picturesque little town where we had fish and chips for tea (at around three in the afternoon!). We had originally planned to stay the night there in the Port Albert Parking Area which has a twenty four hour limit area designated for self contained vehicles. We would have woken to waterfront views but it was windy and would have had little privacy as we climbed out of our roof top tent! Also not sure if a roof top tent counts as a self contained vehicle. So we moved on.

As I write this, Honey is packing away the tent...we had a very quick breakfast this morning, him Cornflakes with soy milk and coffee made on the Trangia, and me a Kuranda macadamia hazelnut health bar with a cup of camomile tea. Later we will have a snow apple which we bought in Yarram yesterday afternoon...two dollars fifty a kilo would you believe. Six apples for one dollar thirty five!