Not far from Sydney

We’ve driven about 1200kms from Melbourne through endless miles of forest and some of the most beautiful countryside we’ve ever seen. But it’s the coast that takes your breath away:just miles and miles (one beach is called Ninety Mile Beach because …. well, yes, you got it!) of golden sandy beaches. Even on Sunday and with the sky cloudless and the temperature around 30C, they were pretty nearly deserted. Heaven on earth.

We’ve stayed in some really nice places and we’re running a competition for ‘Best Hotel’, ‘Best Shower’, ‘Best Position’ – hotel, PLEASE! Metung was a lovely marina-side location:

As we’ve journeyed we’ve taken detours to see places and take in the Australian vibe as much as possible. Central Tilba was a Gold Rush town which has been taken over by the residents to protect it totally. Sure the shops are all for tourists but tasteful and you get a good idea of what it looked like all those many, many ages back in Aussie’s history – now when was that? Oh yes, about 1920.

Another excursion took us into a temperate rain forest and we had to walk across a distinctly wobbly suspension bridge. No problem, as they say here.

Sydney next: a four night city break where we can get some washing done and ship some things back to Blighty, or is it Pommyland – we need some luggage capacity!