I can remember when this salty lake in the middle of nowhere was quite a wild and remote place to be. I haven’t been there for many years, since my husband raced buggies around the dunes. It looks like it has been revamped for the tourist market. And there were a few tourists discovering it.
I spotted this old fella in a field on a very wet and miserable day. He wasn’t about to be doing much at all, just lying around conserving his energy. He captured the mood (pardon the pun) of my day.
It’s another very dull morning, just like last week when I saw this little guy when we set out on our caravaning trip. He seemed to also be hunkered down trying to keep warm.
How wonderful to be able to hitch up the Avan and go off camping. This isn’t my typical style of blog post, but I thought it might be interesting to some.
Here’s my first camping spot. It was at a place with a typical Aussie name, Wooroonook, located near Charlton, Victoria, Australia. There was a lake and camping was permitted around it.
I did manage to find a few birds to photograph.
We moved on to another remote spot called Green Lake, 10 kilometres south of Sea Lake. It was another ‘puddle’ of water. Even though it was a long weekend, just one speed boat with water skier was active. It was a very peaceful spot.
On the way we passed through a tiny town, whose claim to fame was this gum tree. Bullock’s Head was the name of this spot. Can you see the bullock’s head in the shape of the burl?
They had also been gifted this metal sculpture fish from the 2006 Commonwealth Games celebration. It was one of 72 giant fish sculptures that were on barge floating down the Murray River in Melbourne. 60 were offered to local councils across Victoria. Each fish represented a different country, The fish, the Nassau Groper represented Belize. How strange to see it out in the middle of nowhere!! The other 71 are scattered around the state.
The easing of Covid restrictions saw us hop in the car to visit relatives, a 6 hour drive away to the coast. What a treat!!
On the way, we passed these rather odd hay bales. I guess they must have been for the Queen’s Birthday weekend. back in June. I haven’t been out since long before then. To see the farmer’s previous efforts in a past post click here.
Love the queen!
When we got there, the beach was quite deserted
Even the usually frantic beachside cafe was quiet.