Motocross Victoria State Championships

We got talking to some guys who were staying at the Erica campsite and they told us about the motocross state championships that were being held just north of Rawson so next day we headed up the road to check it out. I took loads of pics of the racing and have to say I was chuffed with the results, the hi def pics are special. 

Eat my dust!!

Erica/Walhalla

We next headed up to gold country, we stopped for a week at a caravan park at Erica just south of Walhalla. The guys that owned the park were great and made us welcome and we had a laugh with them and the others that worked there over the week. The town is tiny but had a pub that did great food and a general store that did coffee. We saw our second Koala here and it was running, we also found out they have got arms and legs like a gibbon, not what we expected.

There gold in them there creeks (apparently)

Me trying out the metal detector and gold panning.

Views of Walhalla a historic gold mining town that has been restored. Great information about the various buildings accompanied by old photographs all around town.  It also had a stream railway which you could go on. Only around 20 residence still live here the others are holiday homes. We had a drink in the Wally pub! They serve some mean wedges! We found out that Wally is what the locals call Walhalla.

Thompson Dam north of Erica it was impressive. It has the capacity of 1,068 billion litres, and makes up about 60% of Melbourne's total storage capacity! Yep it was big!

Corinella, Victoria

Next we headed West a bit more and round the coast to Corinella. This was recommended by a fellow camper. It was a great spot and from here you could go to Phillip Island.  Corinella is just a little place on the beach, the caravan park over looks the bay.
The first photos are on a coastal walk you can do. Scoobie encountered his first snake, luckily he was on his lead though he did jump when he first saw it. It was slithered off into the bush.

 

We had to wait a couple of days before we could go to Phillip Island as the 2016 World Superbikes was on. It was very quiet when we went! The first four pictures are from penguins parade. Every evening the penguins come in from the sea and you can go there and watch. We couldn't because of the dogs, but we had a quick walk round while they had a nap in the car!  

The boxes you can just see are there for the penguins. Some had penguins inside. The picture we took is of one which was hiding under the boardwalk!

These are other shots of areas on Phillip Island, as you can see it was a lovely day.

Sale and Shallow Inlet Bay

The next stopped ended up being Sale, we just spent a couple of days there having a good clean up and shower, not much to report there really.  After that we went to Shallow Inlet Bay. We stayed at a caravan park right next to the bay. It was very windy there for most of the time we were there and not overly warm.  We did try to fish here but it was so windy the line kept coming back to shore, the fish live to see another day again! These photos were taken when we arrived, the next day was quite different.

 

Wison's Promentary is at the end of the bay and is a huge national park. Because of the dogs we could explore it properly but we drove in and did what we could from the car.  It was spectacular, these photos don't really do it justice.

Foster is near Shallow Inlet Bay, it was a great little town. Of course we had to look in the estate agent window and did indeed have a look at a gorgeous property for sale in the area, it had a pear tree out the front which had more pears on it, than I thought possible.  But all things considered we didn't buy it.