We pulled into the Killarney Recreation Reserve and was told set up camp anywhere over there as we didn't need power. Would highly recommend this place toots and showers a little dated, but when you also get two free to use washing machines who cares. Set up camp and off we went to do some site seeing.
We traveled to Port Fairy and at the entry of the harbour there is an island that is a nesting area for Mutton Birds, the name of the island is (hope you're sitting down) Griffiths Island and if that isn't enough the island was named after the prominent business man John Griffiths, there was no shutting him up after that. The walk around the island took about an hour, apart from the lighthouse there is all but nothing left of the whaling station that operated on Griffiths Island or the lighthouse keepers cottage, however you can see where the Mutton birds had burrowed into the sand to make there nest.
Thursday we had a bit of a sleep in and finally made it to Warrnambool and checked out the Harbour Village of Flagstaff, it's a little like Old Sydney Town only on the water. John took some photo's from out side as we decided to give it a miss.
We were told at the info centre that the building and grounds that were the old Fletcher Jones Clothing Factory is now a vintage markets. Only some of the premises are used for the markets but it is still full of so many memories. The gardens were beautiful with magnificent rose bushes and huge trees offering shade, they are still maintained and is a popular spot for wedding photo's.
We have only found these vintage markets as they call them here in Victoria.
Friday came with a turn in the weather, windy and cold would best describe it. So off in the car to take a look at Tower Hill. The reserve was declared Victoria's first National Park and sits in the crater of a dormant volcano. The middle of the volcano has become a massive lake and the rest of it is now lush bush land with all the usual suspects emu's, kangaroos and wallabies, koalas, echidna and all that slithers and crawls.
John and I went back to Port Fairy and made the trip to Battery Hill where cannons were installed for the protection from foreign war ships. As well as the cannons the powder magazine was built in 1860 a storage repository for explosives used for civil construction and farming works.
We finished the day off at Koroit a small Irish village not far from where we set up camp. Lovely old pub that dates back to 1853 and is still operating as a true Irish pub.
We traveled to Port Fairy and at the entry of the harbour there is an island that is a nesting area for Mutton Birds, the name of the island is (hope you're sitting down) Griffiths Island and if that isn't enough the island was named after the prominent business man John Griffiths, there was no shutting him up after that. The walk around the island took about an hour, apart from the lighthouse there is all but nothing left of the whaling station that operated on Griffiths Island or the lighthouse keepers cottage, however you can see where the Mutton birds had burrowed into the sand to make there nest.
Thursday we had a bit of a sleep in and finally made it to Warrnambool and checked out the Harbour Village of Flagstaff, it's a little like Old Sydney Town only on the water. John took some photo's from out side as we decided to give it a miss.
We were told at the info centre that the building and grounds that were the old Fletcher Jones Clothing Factory is now a vintage markets. Only some of the premises are used for the markets but it is still full of so many memories. The gardens were beautiful with magnificent rose bushes and huge trees offering shade, they are still maintained and is a popular spot for wedding photo's.
We have only found these vintage markets as they call them here in Victoria.
Friday came with a turn in the weather, windy and cold would best describe it. So off in the car to take a look at Tower Hill. The reserve was declared Victoria's first National Park and sits in the crater of a dormant volcano. The middle of the volcano has become a massive lake and the rest of it is now lush bush land with all the usual suspects emu's, kangaroos and wallabies, koalas, echidna and all that slithers and crawls.
John and I went back to Port Fairy and made the trip to Battery Hill where cannons were installed for the protection from foreign war ships. As well as the cannons the powder magazine was built in 1860 a storage repository for explosives used for civil construction and farming works.
We finished the day off at Koroit a small Irish village not far from where we set up camp. Lovely old pub that dates back to 1853 and is still operating as a true Irish pub.
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