If you cast your mind back to last Friday (25th May) you will remember that it rained that day. It rained 30mm in the hour between 12:30 and 1:30 when the day's maximum temperature of 10.5deg was reached. At that time we were on the Geelong Road. Visibility was not too good, the wind was blowing a gale and it was bloody cold.
On Sunday we met the bloke below who forcibly expressed his view of our sanity.
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As a matter of interest, did you know that Colac could be quite cold? We decided to spend the first night in Colac and were rather surprised that we needed our new diesel heater quite so soon. We went to the Colac RSL for dinner (I had bangers and mash!! and Mare had fish and veg). When we come out afterwards everything that was not firmly attached to our bodies froze off and rolled around on the footpath. We turned on the heater as soon as we got back to our spot and then spent a cosy comfortable night. Hooray for Diesel Heaters.
We had a great weekend in Warrnambool with old friends Bernie and Jill Oppermann. They have a very effective wood heater which warms the whole house so we didn't have to pop out to Maggie and turn on the heater to get warm. For those who don't know the house, it is set on the cliffs above the Hopkins River with a view back to the town through the living room window.
On Monday we tootled on to a nice spot near the beach at Portland. There was plent of evidence of the ferocity of the winds over the weekend but it was much calmer and we had a pleasant night.
Today we moved on the Mount Gambier and a powered site so that I could run the computer to write this blog post. Hopefully I will get faster in the future and I will be able to do it on the battery.
