March 20, 2012 - Great Ocean Road

 

   Some scenery from our trip along the Great Ocean Road, it was breath-taking.

First glimpse of the ocean in 3 months

What a lovely sight?

Lorne, Vic

Signpost - one of many

Magnificent






Another fire - closer this time

The road goes up & down the hills
along the coast line -
beautiful scenery

Looked serious as we drove by

This one was deliberate burn off

Looking down

Fire in the distance

Another sign - funny

The road ahead

What can I say?

The road ahead - very winding

 

Hazy from the fires

Magnificent coastline

Feb 16 to March 19, 2012 Laanecoorie, Vic

Ian cooking dinner - what a view

Looking down the river from our camp

Another sunset

From the bridge, we are camped down on the right

So many birds

More birds

Corella & Magpie!!

Ian checking the yabby pots

again

And yet again

& again

We found ourselves camped alongside the Loddon River at Laanecoorie. Very nice spot, running river with fish, town water available & toilets. Lots of bird life too.  It was so nice we ended up there for 4 weeks.

One of the many beautiful sunsets

An old hut

Very interesting

Enjoying the quiet

Feb 12, 2012 - Maryborough Victoria

Maryborough train station

Pictures of a few of the old buildings that i found interesting, there are loads of them.

Post Office

An old church

Town Hall

Another church

Pioneers Memorial

Old style house, very stylish

Feb 5, 2012 - Paddys Ranges State Park

Ian carrying buckets of water.

For the next 2 weeks we stayed at a free camp at Paddys Ranges. Located just a few km's from Maryborough Victoria.  Detecting was on the agenda, we looked & looked & looked, but there's a lot of Victoria mixed in with the gold.

These photos are of the water boy, filling our tanks.

February 1, 2012 - Bendigo

One of the statues in the park

We left Beechworth & headed for Bendigo. A very old gold mining town with lots of character.

Town Hall

 

Also this magnificent cathedral.
It takes up a whole block in the city.

Bendigo also has a talking tram that takes you on a tour through the city, very interesting.

This fountain is amazing, located in the centre
of a main intersection.

One of the many statues

Inside of the tram, immaculately restored

The tram driver

A soldiers memorial