Wilsons Promontory is Victoria’s favourite National Park and it is pretty much booked out on weekends and peak periods all year round. We thought we’d sneak in mid-week just before Easter while the weather was still good and re-acquaint ourselves with the beautiful beaches and walks. The last time we’d visited was over 12 years ago and nothing much had changed – except the Visitor Information Centre was being completely […]

With the price of fuel skyrocketing due to the Gulf war we decided to pivot from a New South Wales road trip in March 2026 to one in our local Victorian backyard. We packed up the van with bikes, beach towels and hiking boots and headed to Gippsland to discover an array of gourmet treats, rail trails, endless golden beaches and towering trees in the Strzelecki ranges. What a cornucopia […]

Discover cute limestone cottages, art deco cinemas, delicious produce, plunging waterfalls, mirror lakes, old German internment camps and some stunning flora and fauna on a trip around the NSW Southern Highlands towns. We drove up the Hume from Melbourne and our first stop was at the iconic Ettamogagh pub which featured in the cartoon series Footrot Flats for years in Victorian newspapers. We pulled our van into the free camping […]