Being a Robin, I love anything for free – so for there seems to be plenty of places where we can camp for no charge. Camps 6 guide has thousands and thousands of locations listed right throughout Australia where you can camp for free or at very low cost. We found such a place just outside Ballarat, a small gold mining town called Smythesdale. From there we went in to Ballarat to go to:
- Louey Soong’s take away Chinese for famous dim sims and spring rolls (a Brunton tradition when they travelled from Adelaide to Wonthaggi)
- Eureka Stockade where the gold diggers braced against the government taxes – and many lives where lost.
- Craigs Royal Hotel - a trip down memory lane for Lise
Eureka Stockade
Craigs Royal Hotel
Whooooosh, was that Melbourne?
We drove direct from Smythsdale to Wonthaggi. 8 tons of Chev truck and 5th wheel trailer lumbering along the freeways and down the Melbourne toll tunnels at high speed. We came in from the West on the M8 straight through the guts of Melbourne and left via the M1 heading East. Didn’t even stop to see Chloe naked again! (Young and Jackson’s hotel)
Wonthaggi
Had a great couple of days in Wonthaggi. Home to Lise’s Pop and Grandma and where her Dad Ken grew up. A fantastic underground tour of the coal mines, Lise met a bloke who knew her Dad from school. This bloke remembered how they used to ride their bikes around town three abreast, Ken who was blind as a result of a high school chemistry lab explosion, rode in the middle of the three so that the other two gave directional guidance
Outback dunny – Wonthaggi
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