There is a small headland out of Port Fairy called Griffith Island which we had a walk around before we set off to Kingston SE (south East.) It was very good. It was home to some wallabies and ‘roos along with a shearwater bird colony. We had a splendid early morning walk around the island. We saw plenty of ‘roos, wallabies and shearwaters. We are turning into a right pair of twitchers!!
The journey to Kingston went well with a couple of stops along the way, nothing noteworthy just functional brew and lunch stuff. At Kingston we had to find some food supplies so we walked into town. It was Saturday afternoon and apart from a giant lobster outside a shop (see pic) the place was closed!! We did eventually find a shop and all was well. Back at our digs, we had a caravan – oh no!! It was actually very good as it had all the usual stuff, kitchen, bathroom etc but it also had a DVD player and they rented DVDs out at the site office!! We were proper vegged out, 2 movies food and wine a super night was had by all.
Up and away early the following day we were heading for a motel in Meningie. Just as a “note” as Mrs D would say, all along the coast from Bells Beach to Meningie is a notoriously dangerous coastline. The first part known as the Great Ocean Road and then the Shipwreck Coast followed by the Heritage Coast. Now lets get down to it here, this coastline now famous for scenery is really just a memory to all the fallen ships, men and wrecks that are strewn along its coastal length. There is reference to boats, men and wreckage sites all the way along and we are misguided to believe we are here for the scenery when in actual fact we are to pay our respects to all the fallen ships and men – some heroes and some not.
Sorry, I digress again….we are on our way to Meningie which is our last stop on this part of the journey before we fly out to Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock or Red Central as it is known locally. Not far from Meningie we had a small detour to a pelican colony – twitchers binos at the ready – there was a short walk out to a lookout at a colony on an island just off the mainland. Really going to the lookout was a waste of time unless you had NASAs binos but the bonus was that these huge birds were flying over our heads in droves. There must have been hundreds if not thousands of them. They all fly in formation like the red arrows too – most impressive. I spent ages trying to get some good pix whilst Mrs D’s twitching interests dwindled commenting that I would have thirty million pictures the same again.
We moved on and got to Meningie. Nice little Motel right on the beach, with yes you guessed, pelicans sitting on the beach. We went into town and had a brief walk around and went back to prepare our bags for another flight tomorrow. We had around 100 miles to get to Adelaide airport so it was a 6 o’clock start the following day.
The journey to Kingston went well with a couple of stops along the way, nothing noteworthy just functional brew and lunch stuff. At Kingston we had to find some food supplies so we walked into town. It was Saturday afternoon and apart from a giant lobster outside a shop (see pic) the place was closed!! We did eventually find a shop and all was well. Back at our digs, we had a caravan – oh no!! It was actually very good as it had all the usual stuff, kitchen, bathroom etc but it also had a DVD player and they rented DVDs out at the site office!! We were proper vegged out, 2 movies food and wine a super night was had by all.
Up and away early the following day we were heading for a motel in Meningie. Just as a “note” as Mrs D would say, all along the coast from Bells Beach to Meningie is a notoriously dangerous coastline. The first part known as the Great Ocean Road and then the Shipwreck Coast followed by the Heritage Coast. Now lets get down to it here, this coastline now famous for scenery is really just a memory to all the fallen ships, men and wrecks that are strewn along its coastal length. There is reference to boats, men and wreckage sites all the way along and we are misguided to believe we are here for the scenery when in actual fact we are to pay our respects to all the fallen ships and men – some heroes and some not.
Sorry, I digress again….we are on our way to Meningie which is our last stop on this part of the journey before we fly out to Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock or Red Central as it is known locally. Not far from Meningie we had a small detour to a pelican colony – twitchers binos at the ready – there was a short walk out to a lookout at a colony on an island just off the mainland. Really going to the lookout was a waste of time unless you had NASAs binos but the bonus was that these huge birds were flying over our heads in droves. There must have been hundreds if not thousands of them. They all fly in formation like the red arrows too – most impressive. I spent ages trying to get some good pix whilst Mrs D’s twitching interests dwindled commenting that I would have thirty million pictures the same again.
We moved on and got to Meningie. Nice little Motel right on the beach, with yes you guessed, pelicans sitting on the beach. We went into town and had a brief walk around and went back to prepare our bags for another flight tomorrow. We had around 100 miles to get to Adelaide airport so it was a 6 o’clock start the following day.
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