It was a bit of a late start this morning. The plan was to visit Wilson’s Promontory
today. Rain was forecast, from about mid
morning onward, however the rain radar wasn’t showing any signs of it (and didn't end up happening).
Once we reached the boundaries of the Prom there was still a
fair bit of driving to do before reaching Tidal River, which is the Prom’s mecca. School groups were everywhere, as well as a lot of
casual visitors (like us). There was also a a barrage of construction workers present. There is a lot of construction work happening
as a new Visitor’s Centre and Café are being built. If you’ve never visited the Prom before you might
want to leave it for six months to a year as they complete construction.
We had visited the Prom a couple of times for the camping
experience (using a camper trailer) back before Ben had started primary school.
So I’m thinking 2006 and 2007? I hadn’t been back since then. Nick had been
part of a school camp here when he was in grade three (2009?). Part of returning here was for nostalgic purposes. The official purpose, as part of this trip,
was to visit the southern most part of the state.
So, Tidal River was our first stop. As the name would suggest, this is a river
that flows out to the beach, that is affected by the tides, or something like
that. This beach is one of those where
there is a lot of distance between the low tide water mark and the high tide
water mark. It appeared to be low tide
as the water was a long way out.
We spent a good half hour here exploring the area.
As more school groups made their way down to
the beach we left and drove to Mt Oberon.
More specifically, we drove to the car park at the base of Mt Oberon,
Telegraph Saddle, and admired the view from there.
The walk to the summit was almost 7 km
return, not something I wanted to do, or was able to do.
From there we drove down to Squeaky Beach, named because the
sand makes a squealing sound when you step on/through it.
At Squeaky Beach there is a walk that you can do that takes
you through to Picnic Bay.
Nick took the
opportunity to walk there and I met up with him at the Picnic Bay Car
Park.
Whilst waiting for him I ducked
quickly to the next Bay in the vain hope of finding the source of its name. I
was not surprised but a bit disappointed.
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| Whisky Bay (it's a little blurry) |
After I picked Nick up we decided we were done with the Prom.
We then headed to Foster for a late lunch
(review below).
On a family recommendation tea tonight was at The Fish Creek
Hotel, Nick had fish (whiting) and chips
whilst I went for the BBQ Pork Back Ribs.
We don’t normally talk a lot whilst eating however I felt
our mood was particularly quiet.
I don’t
know if it was because neither of us rated our tea highly (the sauce on the
ribs was too sweet, and Nick thought the whiting was bland), whether we were
tiring from our trip, or we were fully aware that tonight was the last night of our
trip.
There comes a time in most trips
when you realise that you are slowly making your way back home and that you’re
either happy, or not happy, for that to happen.
I think that was where are heads were.
Food Review
The Hot Bread Shop in Foster was where we bought our lunch.
(Sorry, I forgot to take a photo).
Nick bought the cheese and bacon sausage roll. He really
like it, however thought that it was a bit too greasy, most likely because of the oil
from the bacon and cheese.
He still
rated it highly
8/10
I had a tomato and onion pie.
This was a great pie.
The pie case was solid and well cooked, the
top crust was the right amount of flakiness and the filling was very tasty,
with small pieces of both tomato and onion amongst the beef mince.
8.5/10Today's Album Thriller Michael Jackson
Kms Travelled Today 160
Kms Travelled Total 2,306
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