Tuesday found us in the clouds. We used our imaginations and saw some awesome views in our drive from Bright to Omeo, up and over Mt Hotham. Lunch at Omeo and an interesting playground stop at Bairnsdale. Stopped for supper in Sale and decided to stay inland overnight as there were strong wind warnings along the coast. Aiden and I had the opportunity to try for an urban geocache and were practicing our stealth techniques. Aiden is becoming quite clever at it and had me pretend to tie up his shoes which if one was to look closely they would notice don’t have any laces. We camped the night in Sale, no sale on camping but it wasn’t too bad and it is the first campground in a long time that actually had lush grass to set the tent up on. Luxury.The next morning we headed down to the coast along 90 mile beach. A very impressive sight/site. Beach as far as you can see in either direction.
It was a good spot to find our 500th geocache, so we picked a memorable cache at 1800’s shipwreck that is still sticking out of the sand like an old whale carcass. To top the morning off, we had a fish and chips (red emperor) lunch at a town called Seaspray down the beach. A very tasty sample of the coast.
The rest of the day was spent geocaching through the Latrope Valley finding little gems of parks and playgrounds tucked away in the hearts of the towns. Places most people just speed on by. It was raining off and on throughout the day and looked fairly ominous in the evening.
This justified a hotel room with the forecast of rain and having to get a early start and not wanting to have to wait for everything to dry or have to pack things wet, we settled into a hotel about 40 km from Melbourne. It was a wise choice for it not only rained but also down poured several times during the night.
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