With us now into December we are into our final month of BBOT. Counting our Tasmania trip late last year, we have been on the road in the van since mid November last year, with a small interlude over Christmas and New Year at home in “The Cottage” @ Kallista. Whilst we plan to be home in 2 weeks, “Be Brave” will still be our home for sometime to come as we renovate our new place in Emerald.

Today we travelled from Burrill Lake to Bermagui, via Bateman’s Bay and Tilba. After the cool change Bateman’s Bay was a bit gloomy, although the sun came out later when we stopped in Tilba. We drove around Bateman’s Bay and I’m sure it has many attributes but not that we could immediately see (other than a pretty nice golf course). Whereas Tiba was a great little historic town, we had a quick lunch in the pub and a walk around the town. Bought some cheese from the Cheese Factory and generally enjoyed our visit to Tilba.

It’s rather funny but the whole south coast region is known for its dairy/cheese industry, Bodalla, Bega & Tilba to mention a few. The landscape is certainly dairy country with green sloping hills, very similar to west Gippsland in Victoria, but we haven’t seen one cow yet! Maybe as we head further south to Eden on Friday, they might surface.

After our 2 days of 40 degrees and gale force winds at Burrill Lake, its cooled down considerably, although the winds were quite strong last night and I had to batten down everything. I’m sure its nice living on the coast but the one constant we’ve had on the eastern side of Australia during the trip is strong winds. All the way down the coast from Cooktown in the Far North, we’ve encountered wind of various strengths. As we’ll be following the coast all the way home, I think the winds will stay with us.