We started the morning at a café I have been to many times before to have a cooked breakfast.
An important public service announcement. When you have run out of spinach to serve with your Eggs Benedict, kale is not a good replacement. The texture of the kale does not work with the rest of the dish. Actually, kale doesnt work with any breakfast dish. Best to avoid.
Another one of the many traditions that we have developed over the years is playing at least one game of mini golf anytime we have stayed in Lakes Entrance. The town has three mini golf courses on the main esplanade, two of which are next door to each other. Our favourite course is the third, weird one – Footbridge Mini Golf.
We were offered professional putters. Mine was Tiger Woods and Nick had Greg Norman.
Helpful signs were dotted throughout the course:
Nick won by two shots.
If you have read my blogs of earlier travels you will know that I’m a big fan of street art. Lakes Entrance has 6 wood carvings of figures relating to the war. The original Monterey Cyprus pines were planted in 1924 to honour the local soldiers killed in “The Great War”. In the 1990’s these needed to be cut down due to either disease or the forces of nature at work. Chainsaw artist, John Brady, created these sculptures in 1998. Here is Simpson and his donkey.
Maybe this counts as street art as well?
There were more murals and other works of street art after we left Lakes Entrance, however I was either not quick enough, or too lazy to take some photos of these. That changed when we hit the town of Yarram.
Heesco Khosnaran is an artist who moved to Australia from Mongolia twenty odd years ago and is known for his street art and also silo art. After the 2020 bushfires and COVID Yarram decide to go all out to make Yarram a town of murals. Heesco went to work and over the next 3 years or so created 24 murals. Here are only a few of them:
I didn’t know this until I had gone to their bakery and picked up a map of all the murals in town. It is so well known that it has won awards and the town is now marketing itself as Heesco Town – Yarram.
I could have spent a couple of hours exploring and viewing all the murals, however I had another person with me who was slightly less interested in all of this. Maybe another time.
After another hour or so of driving we reached our destination for the night. We are staying in a cottage midway between Foster and Fish Creek and will be looking forward to visiting Wilsons Promontory on our last full day of this trip, tomorrow.
Food Review
Yarram Bakery Cafe was our lunch time venue today. Even through it was almost 2:00pm they still had a good range of pies and other hot food available.
Nick chose the plain sausage roll, ahead of the bacon and cheese one. His verdict 7/10
My choice was the beef burgundy pie. This was mostly a great pie and full of flavour however the beef was unfortunately very fatty which did lose it marks. 7/10
Today's Album The Miracle Queen
Kms Travelled Today 320
Kms Travelled Total 2,146
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