A MUCH NEEDED SMALL BREAK.

 Having not been away in our caravan since last November, we decided to go away for a few days in it, now that we have a little freedom here in regional Victoria.  DH booked 4 days at a caravan park in Yarram, on the South Gippsland Highway only a 2 to 3 hour drive south east from home.  This little outing of ours could also help the economy & our sanity.  In the last "unlockdown"😊, around July, we'd had a drive down that way & I'd already taken some photos that I'd not posted, so here we go with a photo heavy post of this small town and what it has to offer.  Our break will be spread over a few posts & I'm determined to get to grips with the new format of Blogger so I can keep this little diary going.

YARRAM.

                                                       The lovely old court house building.

                                                        Two churches I found really nice.

Now for the reason we went here after we'd heard about the MURALS, although we've both stayed & driven through in past years, before they were done.

This selection are all on outside walls.  There are many more inside ones, that we can't access due to restrictions, but one is in a cafe where they are allowed to seat up to ten people.  I was allowed in as they were about to close & most of the customers had left.

I really did think this was something else.  One day in the future we may be able to access the rest of them.  I also found a new to me............................

The lovely quilt shop that I could go into as long as I was masked and kept the appropriate distances.

That was great for my sewjo!

MONDAY AFTERNOON.

The day was not very fine with light misty rain & very windy, so DH had seen in the atlas a place called Jack Smith Lake & thought we should take a look.  His late brother's name was Jack Smith & it was sort of calling us for short trip to fill in the rest of the day.

After a short drive from town, we turned onto a somewhat very rough road & saw plenty of nature inspired photo opportunities for me.  Here are some although not the best due to the poor weather.

The sign for the lake & reserve, but no sign of the actual lake here, so off down the rutted road.

                                      From a distance we saw these kangaroos hopping away.

                                          Then we came across another group just ahead of us.

Finally the lake came into view, but the road was so bad we parked up and did a little walking before the rain set in again.

                                 Coastal ti tree seemed to be quite predominant in these areas.

                                                                A very nice row of trees.

                                                     One of our later flowering wattles.

   This what I've always called native clematis, but I should find out what it really is sometime.

Finally the lake.  As you can see the mountains in the distance are disappearing into low level cloud.

                                                          A view further down the lake.

                  On our way out of the reserve we spotted this bunny running in front of us.  

OK enough for today & I promise I will be back with more of our break this week, even though it rained for 3 days, with a much nicer day on Thursday, we made the most of our time.

Stay safe all, take care and huggles from Susan.