23 June – Monday
No sleep-in today as today is the start of the BIG trip north. Packing up was proceeding well until the refrigerator was opened and Boags Premium snow ice was discovered in the bottom of the door, flavoured with glass shards. Perhaps the frig needs to be turned down a bit!!! Cleaned the mess, hooked up and were on our way by 9.20am and at least it wasn’t raining, not like yesterday.
Headed out of Melbourne on the Monash Freeway without any problems and made our first stop at the Gippsland Heritage Museum at Moe. A highlight of this stop was to actually view and enter the slab bark kitchen which belonged to John Caughey, great-grandfather to Les. It is unbelievable that a woman actually lived, worked and gave birth to 10 children in this building (and the remainder). We certainly were left wondering what the remainder of the house would have been like. It is wonderful that this part of the building has been preserved and moved from its original site to the museum at Moe.
Lunch was a very quick rest area stop – it was far too cold to sit in the caravan for too long without heating. We arrived at Lakes Entrance about 2.45pm and were quite pleased with the fuel consumption today – down to 15 litres per 100 km. We are in a very nice caravan park right across the road from the water. It does seem a lovely town to spend a holiday, unfortunately it is very windy, wet and cold today. Definitely dumper and hat weather!
No sleep-in today as today is the start of the BIG trip north. Packing up was proceeding well until the refrigerator was opened and Boags Premium snow ice was discovered in the bottom of the door, flavoured with glass shards. Perhaps the frig needs to be turned down a bit!!! Cleaned the mess, hooked up and were on our way by 9.20am and at least it wasn’t raining, not like yesterday.
Headed out of Melbourne on the Monash Freeway without any problems and made our first stop at the Gippsland Heritage Museum at Moe. A highlight of this stop was to actually view and enter the slab bark kitchen which belonged to John Caughey, great-grandfather to Les. It is unbelievable that a woman actually lived, worked and gave birth to 10 children in this building (and the remainder). We certainly were left wondering what the remainder of the house would have been like. It is wonderful that this part of the building has been preserved and moved from its original site to the museum at Moe.
Lunch was a very quick rest area stop – it was far too cold to sit in the caravan for too long without heating. We arrived at Lakes Entrance about 2.45pm and were quite pleased with the fuel consumption today – down to 15 litres per 100 km. We are in a very nice caravan park right across the road from the water. It does seem a lovely town to spend a holiday, unfortunately it is very windy, wet and cold today. Definitely dumper and hat weather!
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