On our second full day (but third all up) at the Pump House, the 13th of November, heavy rain was forecast to last all day so we drove to Queenstown through staggeringly beautiful country. Rainforests, meadows of rust coloured sedge, winding up and down and between mountains. All through pouring rain. On the way we passed a number of short walks … [Read more...] about Road Trip: Lake St Clair To Queenstown
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Walking Around Lake Saint Clair
Day two of our stay at the Pump House saw us head off for breakfast over the causeway. As we soon discovered always an invigorating start to the day. Over breakfast we decided to walk around the lake to the Lake St Clair Visitor Centre. As a way of understanding our immediate surroundings. Weather was forecast to be unsettled and we surmised … [Read more...] about Walking Around Lake Saint Clair
The Pump House At Lake Saint Clair
We spent three days at Lake Saint Clair, driving up from Hobart on the 11th of November 2019. It was a warm summer's day for most of the trip but the weather grew steadily worse the closer we got to our destination. Here's our first glimpse of The Pump House; our home for the next three nights. There was snow on the surrounding mountains; not a … [Read more...] about The Pump House At Lake Saint Clair
Mona Museum
We spent the week-end of the 9th-10th of November at Mona Museum as guests of Anne and Hugh. Here's a great view of the whole place from the road to the central highlands. We stayed the night in this, very luxurious apartment. They're called pavilions and are all named after an influential Australian artist or architect. We were in Walter, … [Read more...] about Mona Museum
The Silo Trail
From Sea Lake we embarked on the Silo Trail. I've been on it before with my siblings and have written about that trip here. But Joe hadn't seen it so a road trip was in order. Here's the map. We intended starting from Patchewollock ,which we hadn't reached on my earlier trip, and then going down the trail. But before recording that, here are … [Read more...] about The Silo Trail
Back To The Mallee
I'd promised my Aunt we'd visit her in Swan Hill some time this year, and we managed to do so in November. She welcomed us with a three course meal. It was the day before the Melbourne Cup and she had laid out all her Fascinators for women from her retirement village to come and choose from for an outing on Cup Day to the local bowling club. So we … [Read more...] about Back To The Mallee