Great Ocean Road part 1

 After leaving Cowes we had a fairly stressful trip into Melbourne as the GPS took us up Exhibition st before sending us up Victoria Rd and out via Sydney Rd to Campbellfield where we had planned to see the Traveller Manufacturers to try and rectify a few problems we have had with the van. the most pressing one of course was getting the washing machine fixed.

 After wasting several hours and many phone calls it was decided that Dometic would deal witt the problem and ring us the next day to try to establish what the source of the problem was. So we left there and headed to the Big 4 Caravan park at Coburg as we were planning to see Mama Mia that night. We left the park early catching a bus and then the tram into the city.

 It was lucky that we went early as the booking we thought we had made had not gone through but there was enough seats that we were given front row upstairs seats. Prior to the show we had a quick meal across the raod at a Chinese place that was specialising  in theatre goers. We really enjoyed the show but not the long walk back to the park as we had to catch a different tram and there was no connecting bus. With Lynn's sore leg and back it was a  very long walk for him especially as it was about 1130pm.

 The next day we went into Melbourne after making arrangements wiht Dometic to get the washing machine done in Warrnambool as that was the direction we were heading in. We became quite experts at catching the trams to get around. We had wanted to check out the DFO at the Southern Cross station but due to a very severe storm the weekend before there was so much damage that most of the stores were closed.

 We were very pleased to get out of Melbourne but it took us a while as Suzy wong ( GPS) didn't have updated information on  lot of the new roads so we had to work it out for ourselves and eventually got on the Geelong road. After a quick morning tea stop near Avalon, we headed for Lake Colac and Meredith Park .

 It was a lovely spot  even though the Lake didn't have much water in it.  While we were here Lynn took the opportunity to tidy up the boxes and re-arrange the items on the back. We were also able to ue the fire pot and cook outside using some wood we had carted from Paradice Beach.

 While we were there we had a nasty fright as a dog from the camp next door want to have a go at me as I tried to get past their camp on the way to the amenities block. Luckily Lynn and Brett another camper saw what was happening and rescued me.