FRIDAY 27TH JUNE 2008

We headed into Portland to find a fibreglass repair kit together with a few other things we had to do including topping up the water. We found a VicRoads office so we handed in the plates off my old Commodore (that we had sold the day we left). You know the saying “you can’t go anywhere”, well Steve was standing in the queue to hand in the plates and the guy in front of him was Risky, a mate of Steve’s sister Christine and her hubby Bob. He had set off about 15 years ago and has just relocated from Alice to Portland.

We headed off from there and stopped for lunch and a shower in the pines along the way. We decided not to stay there overnight as there was a sign to say there was 1080 bait in the area and didn’t want to risk it with the dogs. We travelled through Nelson onto Port McDonnell and finally stopped at a rest area that was 1km off the main road at Little Blue Lake. Little Blue Lake is a water filled sink hole. It was once a cave but the top has collapsed to the bottom. The main Blue Lake is up in Mt Gambier.


It was a nice, quiet area until 4.15am the next morning when a few of the local hoons thought they would come in and yell and toot their horn. But they disappeared just as quick so there wasn’t any trouble.