Around Oz - Geoff and Lorelle - April to October 2011: Days 136 - 137: Mount Gambier to Hall's Gap (Grampians)

DAY 136
Twenty minutes out of Mount Gambier we crossed the border into Victoria - we took photographs but it was not as exciting as when we had entered NT, WA or SA. We drove for three hours to get from Mt Gambier to the small town of Hall's Gap. We stopped at Hamilton on the way for morning tea and to visit the Information Centre to find out about Hall's Gap. Hamilton is a big sheep area and is graced by the giant wool bales in the town - we didn't stop to tour the town but it looks like an interesting area, but we are out of time!

The road from Dunkeld in the south to Hall's Gap in the north was only reopend last week-end - it has been closed due to severe road damage in the January floods of this year and people wanting to get to the Grampians have had to enter from ther north. It is a small "village" but quite picturesque. The van park (a Big 4) is nice but deserted (like most we have been to) except for a big array of animal life - kangaroos, emu, deer, birds, etc. You have to watch where you walk due to the occasional 'piles'.

Tonight, the temperature is expected to get down to 1 degree - Brad, you would feel at home!!!

DAY 137
Last night it was cold (not in our van) - got down to at least zero - when we got up just after 8 it was still 3 degrees outside.

We left at 9:45am and went for a loop drive from Hall's Gap up into the mountains - we climbed over 850 metres and it was very cold up there - saw McKenzie Waterfall from a few different lookouts and also some great views over the valleys.

When we got home at 4pm I decided to feed an emu wandering through the van park some left-over cake - he was 20 metres from me when I threw the cake - well he came running towards us faster than Usain Bolt!! I ducked into the van and left Lorelle outside to fight it off - lucky it was friendly! Lorelle ran into the toilet - no more feeding emus......