Over the last few days we’ve been putting down some good miles driving around the Victoria coastline and have now crossed the border into New South Wales.

After leaving Phillip Island, we stopped for lunch on the Wilson’s Promotory, a peninsula and national park that is mainland Australia’s most southerly point. It was beautiful, with lovely sandy beaches and one, called squeaky beach that literally squeaks as you walk on it – this is to do with the rounded quartz in the sand apparently.

The last couple of nights we’ve been staying in Metung, a small little village on the edge of the Gippsland Lakes. It’s very nice but very sleepy and not a whole lot to do in the area apart from boating and fishing so we went out on a boat trip yesterday when we saw a seal, black swans and other birds, but not the dolphins that sometimes come into the lake system from the coast.

A slightly shorter drive today, around 3 1/2 hours in total, with a couple of stops, but it still didn’t stop our darling son from having a rather large meltdown about half an hour from our destination… which is just outside Merimbula at the Woodbine Park Eco Cabins. On arrival here we were greeted by the resident ‘chooks’ as well as the semi-tame ‘roos – Wills was given some feed for them which straight away improved his otherwise grumpy mood. Can’t wait to explore more tomorrow – we’re on the edge of a national park and about 10 mins walk from a beautiful beach.