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Week 3
Day 15 – Monday
Paradise Beach – Wilsons Promontory
I woke up in the morning and had to wade my way through a thick cloud of monstorous mozzies hovering outside the caravan door. I’ve never experienced anything like it. They were HUGE! And ruthless. And they just seem to KNOW you had to come out the door at some point and they could attack! Unbelievable. Time to move on!!
We found a spot just above Wilsons Promontory at Shallow Inlet. A nice spot – quite busy and there are a lot of permanent caravans set up. The boys had a ball playing in the dirt – they were filthy! We had to clean them up before heading out for a drive to see the area.
Day 16 – Tuesday
Wilsons Promontory – Melbourne
A nice scenic drive towards Melbourne. We Chose a Big4 in Doncaster to stay a few nights and unwind. Really nice friendly park. Luca (& Scott and I) had a ball on the jumping pillow that we were parked right next to. Jaz didn’t like the bouncing much so he enjoyed the sand instead.
Day 17 – Wednesday
Melbourne
Pretty uneventful day. We just relaxed and did a bit of shopping, caught up on Laundry. All the boring stuff.
Day 18 – Thursday
Melbourne – Geelong
We left Doncaster and headed towards Geelong. It was quite a hike as we avoided the city and went around Melbourne. So many caravan parks to choose from in the area but the first one we drove to was awful. We settled on Portarlington Seaside Resort. A bit pricey but well worth it considering the amenities were nice and the location is great – you can see Melbourne across Port Phillip Bay. We set up camp and then hurried over to the Adventure Park as there was rain forecast for the next few days so we needed to do it today! I was really excited about it after the wonderful time we had at Magic Mountain. We paid the same as we did for Magic Mountain ($33 each and the kids were free) but it was such a waste of $66! The kids couldn’t get on anything apart from play around the toddler zone – the boys hated it as there was a torrent of water splashed down on you every minute or so. Luca was petrified. They couldn’t go on any of the rides so those were out for us too as whats the fun in going on them alone. We couldn’t even take them on the river ride due to either age or height. So we wandered over to the paddle boats hoping to have a paddle around the lake but no, children 3 and under were not allowed. The go karts were only on once a day for half an hour, which we missed – not that the boys were allowed on those either! We did manage to get them on a ride on the carossal – whoopee! We left bitterly disappointed.
Day 19 – Friday
Geelong
I tried to convinced Scott that it would be fun to take the boys to Fairy Park out at Anakie. He agree to go but wasn’t convinced. But it was great. Luca just loved pushing all the buttons and seeing the characters move. Any tale with a wolf in seemed to capture his attention the most. The playground at the end of it had the potential to great but thousands of flies had made their home inside the structures. It was quite disgusting. The boys still had fun though.
We then drove into Geelong and had lunch at the waterfront and the kids had a play in the playground and a quick paddle in the pool.
Day 20 – Saturday
Geelong – Glenaire
We left Portarlington and headed to the Great Ocean Road. It was a miserable rainy and windy day but it was still a gorgeous scenic drive. We camped at Johanna Beach Campground for the night. Being a weekend, it was quite busy and there was a group of noisy young guys camped next to us and it was still raining and miserable so it didn’t make for an overly pleasant stop.
Day 21 – Sunday
Glenaire – Warrnambool
Another rainy day as we drove the rest of the Great Ocean road. We stopped at Warrnambool at a lovely little park called Fig Tree Holiday Village. It has an indoor heated pool and spa so even though it was miserable the boys got a swim and a play in the spa. The rain cleared later in the afternoon so we drove around Warrnambool for a while and enjoyed the adventure playground – there is a great flying fox for under 12s which the boys loved and one for the bigger kids which Scott and I had fun going on. Our fun was cut short when it started to rain again.