The caravan convoy for charity began at Dandenong Big4 caravan park with each of the participants being introduced to their individual vans and what a display. The best of the Best have been put together to "Go make some memories" around Victoria at the top ten tourist destinations in this great state and within 2 hours of Melbourne.
So far this trip has taken us to phillip island,where we visited the Phillip Island trout farm at Rhyll. A competition was set up between two teams to catch the most fish and pound for pound, our team won. Then we ate the fish....Yummo.
In the afternoon, half of the group visited the lovely Venus Bay and environs while the other half went into Cowes, strolled the main street and walked up and down the jetty.This was all followed by the first of the mini concerts to be performed by members of our group at several of our stays. a great day/night.
next morning as we hitched up the teams to the wagons, we found the group would travel towards Sorrento with some going to Portsea and others going to Rye. The Rye group went to a natural mineral spa and had a great time. We strolled the street of Portsea and ended up with lunch at the magnificent Portsea Hotel before our cruise across the bay to Queenscliff. The wind had picked up and the crossing could have been smoother. We travelled to beacon Resort Big4 at Queenscliff for the night where the second of the mini concerts was held in appalling cold weather. That didn't stop the performers or indeed, the 100 strong audience either. Tin rattling has produced a better result from the greater numbers obviously. a very funny night with matt Hollywood, comedian magician extraordinaire, doing a great job.
Time to get going again and this morning through Ocean Grove Torquay and stop for a break at Anglesea. Surf carnival attempt at a world record of the greatest number of surfers on the one wave was to be attempted but no news of that yet. Moved on taking several breaks for traffic to pass and our camera crews to go ahead once again to capture the convoy snaking its way along this magnificent piece of shoreline. i must say though, that i believe the road condition is the worst that i have seen it in for many years.I suppose that says something for the traffic numbers along there.
Tomorrow we leave here bound for Ballarat via Colac. Two nights there including a day off so will catch up with some cousins in the area, some shopping and a mini concert..
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