The Lakes Entrance is a really picturesque town situated on the gentle waters of Cunninghame Arm, backed by sand dunes. We were only here for a fly by visit to settle our curiosity, but managed to get some great views from the lookouts looking over the Lakes Entrance and got a jist of what the surrounding area was like. Later we crossed the footbridge of the Cunningham Arm inlet to Ninety Mile beach. To be honest the beach was, well, a beach - and a long one at t...

We had heard lots of good things about Wilson's promontory. Unfortunately the day after the famous Black Saturday in Victoria, a dry lightning storm passed over Wilson's Prom and a bushfire ignited burning 25,200ha over 5 weeks, close to 50% of the national park. It was named the cathedral fire as this was the name of the area where the fire started. Due to the fire and rehabilitation programmes etc alot of the park was closed to the public as the fire had only b...

To break up the long journey back to Melbourne, we stopped at Port Fairy and took a short walk to Griffiths Island Reserve.. a beach walk which led up to a small lighthouse - really good to stretch our legs though. The drive up to Melbourne was a long slog.. we saw a bushfire on the way which was pretty crazy. It actually looked like a huge puffy cloud, but since it was so low, it didnt move and only grew in size we eventaully caught on it was a bushfire! Strange...

Mount Gambier was a really beautiful place, famous for its deep bright Blue crater Lake in the extinct volcano the town is based around - which mysteriosuly changes to vivid cobolt blue from November each year. We took the 3.6 kilometre walking path around the blue lake stopping at various lookouts, which was beautiful. Caves have been formed under and around the city through dissolution of the limestone. We visited a really good example of this, where the cave h...

Our main reason for visiting Cape Bridgewater was to take a walk around the cliff tops, to the home of the largest mainland group of seals in Australia at 'seal point'. We actually walked along Australia's highest cliff to get to the colony. The colony was pretty amazing, there were so many seals here all playing with eachother, ducking and diving in the sea - not to mention the horrific smell that the little things produced!! Pooh! It was a shame that we couldnt...