Day 104 - Stawell. I am not going to dwell on this too much as I am probably just teaching you to suck eggs, but aren't some people dickheads. I was listening to the ABC and some 'expert' said that if the speed limit were reduced to 80 kms on country roads there would be a lot less deaths! She obviously has a PhD in the bleeding obvious.

If you are a golf playing reader, I can highly recommend the Port Fairy Golf Club. It is a links course like no other I have played in Australia, the photograph on the left gives you some idea of what it is like. The day I played the wind was only 30 knots; my first drive went straight down the middle and then was turned at right angles by the wind. I had a wonderful time!

Spent some time on the Great Ocean Road the views are great but and it's a big but, its so slow and there are so many tourists. I don't mind sharing my holiday with some other people, but the Great Ocean Road should be renamed the Great Ocean Slow.

Below are some pictures taken at Squeaky Beach, its called Squeaky because the sand makes a squeaking noise as you walk along. It must have been having a bad hair day when I was there, as I couldn't hear any squeaking whatsoever. Actually on second thoughts, it was probably too cold!

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell was an early Australian explorer and boy did he get around. When the footy commentators use the expression 'he covered more ground than the early explorers' this is the bloke they were talking about. He has towns, rivers, suburbs, an electorate, a highway, a type of locomotive, a mouse and a bird amongst other things named after him. His main claim to fame must be that he has had more monuments raised in his honour than any other Australian and I just found another one in Dunkeld I know of others in NSW & Queensland, I will keep my eyes open for more.

I have had enough of the coast and have started to move north, where I plan to spend Xmas at Mildura and to wait out the worst of the school holidays before moving into South Australia. I won't be using the IPhone map to find my way, apparently it thinks that Mildura is in the Sunset National Park. Six people have already been rescued after using the app, the Sunset Country is not a good place to get lost, no people, no phone, no water, roads of sand, they were luck they didn't all die.