Bright to Lakes Entrance. After spending the night in a cabin in Bright because of rather cold temperatures forecast overnight, we left there with the thermometer in the car showing 10 degrees outside - quite chilly by our standards for 10am. As we slowly drove up the rather narrow, windy road to the top of Mt Hotham, we watched the temperature drop to 0 degrees. (photo).Small patches of ice and snow were still on the road, making it quite slippery, particularly, with the trailer on the back. (photo) (Ric drove very carefully, Kristy). We stopped at the summit and had a coffee/ hot chocolate before going down the eastern slope (photo). For a lot of the way we followed a stream which was flowing rather quickly - from all the melting snow, I guess. It was surprising to see the difference between the western and eastern slopes. The temperature rose very quickly down the latter and the snow and ice disappeared quite high up the slope.
We then headed for Lakes Entrance and the east coast which we left 16 weeks ago, passing through some lovely farmland on the way. (photo). Unfortunately, the bleak weather - wind, rain & cold - that had dogged us so far continued. After exploring the local bushland around the golf course, we adjourned to the Tyers Lake hotel for a welcome glass of wine. This is a lovely part of the world with a well presented caravan park run by the local angling club, with a hotel next door with views out to the ocean and reasonably priced menu that is reportedly quite good. We returned to the caravan park on the waters edge in town where we had set up camp and enjoyed a long hot shower to thaw out before spending a pleasant few hours taking in the water views while devouring a succulent seafood platter for two at the Ferryman floating restaurant , washed down with a few glasses of chardonnay from Margaret River.
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