Today is really our last full day in a caravan park, tomorrow we’re off to Rick’s place in Noojee for a couple of days before we get home on Wednesday. So I get to enjoy a van park shower for the last time, for sometime to come I would suggest. Susan uses the shower in the van, whilst I’ve been the adventurous one, risking all sorts of diseases but so far all good. One day to go.

We did a bit of touring around today, enjoying the warm and sunny weather (at last). We headed off to Bruthen, then Upper Tambo, Metung and Lakes Entrance before back to Bairnsdale and finally back to the park here in Paynesville.

Bruthen is a great little town, somewhere that Susan and I could live. Morning tea there and the visiting the obligatory Antique shops, this time Susan purchased something but fortunately only material for her patchwork and not old “crap”. Then on to Upper Tambo before we headed off to Metung via Swan reach.

We love Metung, we looked at buying land here many years ago but it was expensive then and even more so now. It would be great to have a yacht on the Lakes here, maybe something to aim for. Once again you have to have a drink at the Metung pub, not to many better outlooks from a pub in country Victoria. A quick drive thru Nungurner followed. We were looking for a art gallery that we visited back in the early 2000’s but unfortunately its no longer operating.

Then into Lakes Entrance were we had lunch. There was only one place open for lunch at 2pm. We hear that regional Victoria wants support, as does the rest of Australia but the hospitality industry has to also come to the party as well! Don’t close your kitchens at 2 or close completely at 3pm. There are thousands of Aussies willing to spend money in regional towns but if your not open you miss out! I’ve had my rant, pity my blog wasn’t read by the “industry”.