Waratah to Trial Harbour

No boom gates. If you see a flashing light & a train coming, just stop. It’s a simple rule & it seems to work

We can’t get enough of this crazy weather. Huge swells & gale force winds are predicted for the next couple of days. There maybe a wave at the end of it all, later, in a few days.

The road into Trial Harbour has been the most challenging to date with the van in tow. Narrow, steep & windy ( both bendy & blowy) gravel in most places. The last turn into town is a doozy.

Brown is the new Grey (with dirt)

Trial Harbour would be lucky to have 17 permanent residents. There are only a few camping sites & the only other campers we saw packed up & left this morning after a wild night of weather.

View from the van at our camp site

White Water almost to the Horizon

Things to do when it’s Wet’n’Wild
Bake a cake, Ginger Bread

Mobile phone coverage is non existent except for a couple of spots. As the weather seems to be maintaining its fury it looks like book reading is on top of the list for today’s activity. With tea & cake!

We are here, at Trial Harbour

Reduced to basic rations. Tonight we dine on fish (hunted at Green Point), steamed with lime chilli, & wild garlic (gathered at Thunder Reef) with mashed potatoes & asparagus (from Coles’s)

Wine from the Mornington Peninsula. Roughing it in the Wild West.

It’s a Lumpy Bumpy Horizon like no place else, but it looks like it’s clearing. Not.

Swell dropping from 6m to 4m. Wind easing, there may be a wave soon…

But not tonight

The next day it was looking better for tomorrow.

Things you do while waiting for waves.
The Knitting Club

With red wine

The Scrabbled Club

Just Keep lookin & hoping

These guys (Samantha & Glenn) & one local (Tim) seem to have it all worked out. Hoping for a surf soon.

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