Cruise & 90 Mile Beach

Wednesday 19 Aug, we left Marlay Point at a record 7.45am to catch a river cruise on the Thompson River and here is the story in pics:

The Rubeena, an electric powered boat, built 1912. This is about as close as we will ever get to Cruise Liner 😉

The tickets

The captain

The crew

The boat

Thompson River

Bark Canoe tree

Reflections

The Swing Bridge

The Swing Bridge swivel gear

More Crew! 😉

Had lunch on Thompson River near The Swing Bridge

The Swing Bridge turning gears

The Swing Bridge from top

Arrived at 90 Mile Beach in Gippsland Lakes Coastal Park, VIC which is here:

and settled in:

Our possie in C2

C2

The rules

Our beach

Our beach comber

and here is a 90 Mile Beach  in Gippsland Lakes Coastal Park, VIC sunrise:

Thursday 20 Aug – Kym went for an exploratory ride around –

This is part of the Gippsland Lakes system and our camp is on a strip of land between this and the sea.

This is a sewerage outfall into the ocean, nice, thought these were no more. But apparently not when they are not in public view. Next pic is interesting!

How to “greenwash” a sewer discharge site …… put a nice green frog as the eye catching feature. Thought it was a frog habitat sign at first.

A nice little shack in the Golden Beach “back streets” complete with outside dunny 🙂

Friday 21 Aug – a few pics for today:

A 90 Mle Beach sunride, someone has to be up at 6am to appreciate these gems.

About 5km up the road towards Seaspray is the Trinculo wreck, what is left of it. The merged pic on the bottom is the wreck in 2001 and then in 2014.

This is what is left now.

A closeup of the wreck, better be quick if you want to see it. Disappearing rapidly.

Saturday 22 Aug – a few pics for our last day here:

This is what you do while waiting for the sun to rise – sit & take pics of your feet 🙂

The awaited sunrise. Took about 20 pics to get this one.

The track from our camp to the beach.

Could not resist a pic of this unique Colourbond fence in the back blocks of Golden Beach.

Today, Sunday 23 August, off to Port Albert or Toora, both free camps. Will check out Port Albert first.

This may be our launching point to see Wilsons Promontary. Cannot afford to stay in the Park at $55/night for an unpowered site ……. wafore …….. a few sq.mts of ground & a long drop dunny ….. don’t think so!

See you there.