18 Feb 10 – Wynyard

By Lou: We left Lake Barrington for the general direction of Burnie. We arrived and stocked up on some groceries. We hadn’t showered for 5 days so to avoid making people pass out from the stench we split up in the supermarket. Craig struck up a conversation with the sales assistant at the bottle shop and upon her recommendation we headed a further 10km down the road to a lovely beachfront caravan park at Wynyard. Here our clothes walked themselves to the laundry. We walked ourselves to the showers and reintroduced ourselves upon our return to the camper. Had a pleasant stroll into town, a beer at the pub, and then home for creamy tomato salami pasta from the Thermomix whilst looking out at Bass Strait.

We plan to use a few days here to bring our blog up to date, do our laundry and charge an interminable number of batteries.

One of the tasks set for Sam in his English unit was to make a presentation to an audience about a rhyming narrative including the reading of same.
We had been torturously practicing on and off for 2 weeks and it was time (sanity-wise, not necessarily preparedness-wise) for him to hit the stage. After a casual introduction to a couple 2 vans down I got a whiff of sympathy given they had young grandchildren. So we roped them into coming by at 6:30pm with chairs, refreshments and stamina for Sam’s presentation which had to be video-taped for his teacher. Well, he loves an audience and did very well given it was a lot of reading to do and the audience were very gracious. He was quite surprised at the end when a presentation was made to him by our visitors and delighted that it was sugary and edible. Adrienne and Don were also kind enough to extend an invitation to us to stay at their place on the Great Ocean Road if we head that way. It is instances of kindness like that that can’t be snapped by a camera but put a smile on the dial.

By Craig: Wynyard provided me the opportunity to throw a line in the river, and I enjoyed walking through the township and looking around some old wares shops while Sam and Lou did schooling.
Watched some sailing in the river and enjoyed practicing moving and wildlife shots with our new camera.
Enjoyed chatting to a few of the locals while the washing machine did its cycles.