Linda & Pete's Travels, Feb 2019, NSW & VIC Coasts, Wilsons Prom, Walhalla, Mornington P

We left Jude and Greg’s right on midday, Saturday the 23 rd Feb. The plan was to make it home on Monday the 25 th . The trip to Sydney from Safety Beach could be done in two days, even towing a van but we were not in a rush and didn’t want to spend two longs days in the vehicle. So we decided to head for a free camp at Seymour. Rather than take the motorways all the way we turned off at Ringwood to go through the Yarra Valley. Firstly the Lilydale bypass, Yarra Glen and then Yea. We didn’t get till Yea till close to 4pm. It looked like a very nice town and we did not feel like driving on so I had the idea to check if there were any free camps there at Yea. There were two in town, being the two pubs. The comments on the Country Club Hotel were better so we drove there. I spoke to the manager at the pub who immediately welcomed us to stay and advised about where to get the shade. It was just an open grassed area out the back and we were the only ones there. It was nice and qui...

We finished up at Sorrento on Wednesday the 20 th Feb and drove to Safety Beach where we would stay for the next three nights with friends, Jude and Greg. It was a short drive up Port Phillip Bay to their place. We met them when we stayed at Broome in 2015. They feature a fair bit in our blog from that trip, www.secondbigtrip.blogspot.com.au . On the first occasion we met them which was a dinner fundraiser for the RFDS at the van park we were in at Broome, they offered to pick us up from a place we were storing our van and vehicle whilst we flew back to Sydney and then pick us up from the airport when we returned and drive us out to pick up our van and vehicle. It was a 20km or more, round trip each time. That is the sort of great guys they are. After we left Broome we kept bumping into them at Karijini National Park and Cape Range National Park. We have been keeping in touch with them ever since. So it was great to see them. How is this for generosity? Greg pulled his van ou...