Port Fairy, our home over the Melbourne Cup long weekend.
As we had not had the van out since the Darwin trip in April we had been looking forward to a good opportunity to get back out on the road and with our planned three week trip at Christmas getting closer it was a good change for a dry run. For this trip we chose the Belfast Cove Holiday Park. It turned out to be a great little park that was nice and quiet. Its only let down, to us, was the size of the sites and the road through the park. The sites are tight to reverse into and there is insufficient room to park your vehicles. This means many cars are protruding onto the road, limiting through traffic. I ended up rating the park a 3 on "Badgers"
As it was a dry run we also took the Kayak. We did not end up using it on this trip but it did travel well on the car. Also on this trip was Mum and Dad (Suprise, Suprise) who were testing out their new Van on its first trip. All went well and overall we only have a small list of things we had forgotten to pack.
As we were there for a few days we had planned to do some travelling to other towns in the region. Our first stop, though, was the Port Fairy show. This just happened to be on when we arrived on Saturday so off we went. It was a typical country show with plenty of farm related animals. There was also rides for the kids and some great stalls/displays. Caityn ended up finding herself nursing a wallaby joey and a blue tongue lizard, which she enjoyed. Sara would of liked to bring home one of the sugar gliders they had as a pet too.
Caitlyn also found herself jumping around in a Giant ball, she is in the Yellow one :)
Sunday saw us drive down to Portland for a look around. A place on our bucket list of places to stay is Narrawong, and looking at the caravan park there, we will most definitely visit there soon.
We had a brief look around Portland, most of the town being out to support a running event that was on. In the evening we all decided to go for a walk out to the Griffiths Island Light house. This was a great walk and we returned to the cars just in time for the sunset.
Monday saw us head east to Warrnambool. We have been here before and spent most of the day walking the main street before heading down to the beach. The weather had turned for the weekend though so it was not as nice a day as the day before. We also drove out to the breakwater wall and the old battery installation for a bit of a look. They really knew how to build structures in the "old days". The breakwater wall has seen better days and must of really looked great in its time.
Our final night in Port Fairy was spent at the Commercial Hotel for a great meal before walking along the old docks in town.
