Team Henry Futsal Winners 2013

Henry on the left & Dad Simon the Coach

Futsal Team 1st place

William on the left

Weekend with the Cleeland Boys

great helpers with the vege garden

Jacob's 1st ride operating the ride-on by himself....very proud young man!

Orchids

My beautiful find in the garden today!

Dayboro

Back to reality for us.....we had a thoroughly enjoyable holiday!  Still raining here as it has been for the last 3 weeks....the garden looks fantastic, thanks to our wonderful house sitters Dennis & Lynnie.

We are both having awful trouble recognizing which duck is Francis....she is as big as Freddie & Frieda.....has grown heaps in such a short time!  Guessing Francis is on the left!

Melbourne

St. Kilda 

Melbourne Tramcar Lunch

look at this...drinking a crown lager!!

We enjoyed the Tramcar Lunch today, beautiful food and thoroughly wonderful service as well as top scenery along the 2hr. trip.  This lunch and Melbourne City remind us of Paris!

Melbourne

Flinder Street Station

Royal Botanical Gardens

Eureka Skydeck 88

Melbourne

Rosebud to Melbourne

 Boat Houses Dromana Beach

Looking to the Rod Laver Arena from our room at Mantra on Jollimont

Just to the right of this picture is the MCG

My NAVMAN (Graham)  made it out of Sydney and into Melbourne without getting lost once!!!!!!

Rosebud

Flowers at Heronswood

Rosebud

Historic Heronswood House completed in 1871

Dotty-Lotty-Spotty

looking out to Port Phillip Bay from Arthurs Seat Lookout

Today we visited Heronswood, home of the Diggers Club in Dromana.  Beautiful!  Graham was well & truly at home!!

Rosebud Mornington Peninsula

Today we followed the road less traveled from Inverloch through the town's of Wonthaggi, Kilcunda, Grantville, Hastings, stopping at Balnarring where we found these pretty reeds on the side of the road, plus great lunch at a one stop shop for everything in the middle of no where!  All the way hugging the coast road to Flinders, then across to Rosebud.  Rest now!

Inverloch

Meeniyan

lunch in the park at Meeniyan

Toora Wind Farm

Port Albert

the cabin we stayed in at Port Albert

Port Albert

Port Albert is a very small fishing village....the cabin we stayed in is at the back of Rodondo B&B  they have a very productive vegetable garden and chooks, very nice set up!

Bruthen to Sale to Port Albert

We drove to Bruthen a pretty rural town west of Lakes Entrance where Pat Aker's ancestor's settled when they came to Australia. From here we stopped in Sale for lunch overlooking Lake Guthridge when this water fountain came on....unfortunately I left my lens cover there!  

Lakes Entrance

the foot bridge across to 90 mile beach

we could spend a couple of weeks here, no worries!

these statues are carved out of wood they are all  along the foreshore in commeration of those who died in the war

We thoroughly enjoyed our stay here in Lakes, beautiful spot!

Lakes Entrance

Panoramic view looking west along the Mitchell River silt jetties, with Lake King on the left.

Mitchell River silt jetties, looking from the south bank towards the north bank, with the Mitchell River in the foreground and Lake King in the distance. The rocks lining the banks have been placed to prevent erosion.

I sourced this information from Wikipedia The Mitchell River silt jetties^[1] are an unusually long, thin landform located in the Gippsland Lakes region in Victoria, Australia. A type of digitate delta, they have been formed over millions of years by sediment deposition from the Mitchell River during periods of low water flow and subsequent wash-through during periods of high water flow. The long narrow banks of silt thus formed extend more than eight kilometres east into Lake King. The south bank is navigable by car from Eagle Point through to the very easternmost tip at Point Dawson.

Lakes Entrance

Lakes from Jemmies Point

St Marys Catholic Church Bairnsdale

The Silt Jetties Point Dawson

little bit of 90 mile beach

Graham at Point Dawson - after driving  the 8km. of the Silt Jetties

view from our cottage

Started out this morning to the lookout at Jemmies Point. From there a visit to the Bairnsdale Markets was very rewarding!  Then on to Paynesville where we had lunch overlooking the Marina, very pretty area.  From Eagle Point we took the 8km. drive over the Silt Jetties out to Point Dawson.  Back to Lakes for a walk over the footbridge to the beach.  All in all a very good day!