Man, what a trip through Victoria and into Melbourne yesterday!!
Have had a great trip down the Newell from sunny, reasonably warm Qld, but of course the further south we got, the colder it got - couldn't work out why we were the only two vans heading south and every second vehicle heading north was a vannie!!!
From Parkes to Jerilderie on Monday was hairy enough with the cross winds, and fuel consumption was down, but have to say that yesterday was worse, and to add to the trek to the other side of Melbourne, it was raining as well.
Thankfully we were not going on the ferry to Tassie last night as the winds were on a scale similar to a category 3 cyclone!!! Hopefully by Friday night the winds will have dropped and it will be a relatively smooth sailing.
Off for a day trip to Phillip Island today to visit the Vietnam Vet Museum - quite looking forward to checking it out - great day out for Pete for his birthday.
Travel Bug said
09:56 AM Jul 6, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE!!!
Enjoy your visit to Phillip Island....hope the winds die down a bit. A trip to there is on my October (ish) agenda.
Smooth crossing to Tassie.
Cheers. Pam.
ChiChi1 said
10:53 AM Jul 6, 2011
Happy Birthday!!!
sucastja said
10:59 AM Jul 6, 2011
Welcome to wild and windy Melbourne!!!! I hope the weather improves a great deal before you make that trip to Tassie!!! Have done it once, years ago, on the Devil Cat with 4 metre waves - now I know why they called it the Devil Cat!!! Thank god they retired that boat!!! Anyway, enjoy Phillip Island - it's a nice place, but will be very windy and cold there too
Esmeralda said
11:46 AM Jul 6, 2011
Happy birthday Pete!!
Cheers, Es
Smokeydk said
02:05 PM Jul 6, 2011
Still wild and windy and very wet here in SA
Pejay said
05:31 PM Jul 6, 2011
Thank you all for your great wishes - had a great day at Phillip Island, all I need now is for Qld to win State of Origin to make it an even greater birthday!
Thanks again,
Pete
wendyv said
11:05 PM Jul 6, 2011
Hope you have a cabin on the Tas ferry - sharing spaces with the public at large is not fun on a rough crossing.
milo said
11:38 PM Jul 6, 2011
the wind here in the shoalhaven is pretty hairy too, feels like freight train going past.. dont know whow you guys in small vans are holding out...
-- Edited by milo on Wednesday 6th of July 2011 11:38:48 PM
Ma said
09:25 AM Jul 7, 2011
Pejay wrote:
Thank you all for your great wishes - had a great day at Phillip Island, all I need now is for Qld to win State of Origin to make it an even greater birthday!
Thanks again,
Pete
You REALLY had a great Birthday didn't you Pejay. Glad you did
Pejay said
04:17 PM Jul 7, 2011
Oh yeah!! Pete really enjoyed rubbing it in to the ****roaches parked next door to us!
Mind you I enjoyed the lovely choccies I bought at Phillip Island whilst watching the game too.
-- Edited by Pejay on Thursday 7th of July 2011 04:18:24 PM
Happywanderer said
05:46 PM Jul 7, 2011
Happy Birthday Pete, Good to see you enjoyed Phillip Island, I love it down there too. Looking forward to my next trip there. Good luck for your trip to Tassie tomorrow, hope you have a great time down there too.
Man, what a trip through Victoria and into Melbourne yesterday!!
Have had a great trip down the Newell from sunny, reasonably warm Qld, but of course the further south we got, the colder it got - couldn't work out why we were the only two vans heading south and every second vehicle heading north was a vannie!!!
From Parkes to Jerilderie on Monday was hairy enough with the cross winds, and fuel consumption was down, but have to say that yesterday was worse, and to add to the trek to the other side of Melbourne, it was raining as well.
Thankfully we were not going on the ferry to Tassie last night as the winds were on a scale similar to a category 3 cyclone!!! Hopefully by Friday night the winds will have dropped and it will be a relatively smooth sailing.
Off for a day trip to Phillip Island today to visit the Vietnam Vet Museum - quite looking forward to checking it out - great day out for Pete for his birthday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE!!!
Enjoy your visit to Phillip Island....hope the winds die down a bit.
A trip to there is on my October (ish) agenda.
Smooth crossing to Tassie.
Cheers. Pam.
Happy birthday Pete!!
Cheers, Es
Thanks again,
Pete
the wind here in the shoalhaven is pretty hairy too, feels like freight train going past..
dont know whow you guys in small vans are holding out...
-- Edited by milo on Wednesday 6th of July 2011 11:38:48 PM
Oh yeah!! Pete really enjoyed rubbing it in to the ****roaches parked next door to us!
Mind you I enjoyed the lovely choccies I bought at Phillip Island whilst watching the game too.
-- Edited by Pejay on Thursday 7th of July 2011 04:18:24 PM