We left Ulvertsone in the morning and headed to Devonport to collect our mail. We got the mail and as it was a sunny day we decided to head for Ashgrove Cheese Factory, again, to get another round of ice creams and cheese! With our vouchers of course.
On the way back to Devonport we thought we would have a look at Latrobe and try and track down a fellow we met in Mallacoota, Ron. The only thing we knew was that his name was Ron, he lived at Latrobe and his wife worked at the Information Centre. Small town, this couldn’t be hard. And it wasn’t. We walked in and asked the fellow if he knew a lady who worked here with a husband called Ron. Yep, I’ll show you where he lives! So he did.
We turned up at Ron’s house as he and his brother Nipper were heading out to mow. So he suggested we all go back to the Information Centre for a cuppa, so we did. Mitchell went trout fishing in the river while we chatted and had cuppas.
During the course of the afternoon we met his wife, Nolene, who was actually the manager of the Information Centre. We also learnt that Ron was heavily involved with the Platypus Reserve “Warrawee Park” and has basically built and revegetated the river and area to increase the Platypus population over the past 20 years. He has also won an Australian Landcare award! He withheld all of this from us when we met him, very humble.
He offered for us to stay at Warrawee Park, which is only open to the public through the day. The gates get locked every night and opened every morning. We took him up on the offer as it was a magical place to stay. The kids tried their hands again at trout fishing as they were jumping everywhere! Ron also took us on his Platypus tour where we saw cute little platypuses swimming in the ponds.
We returned to have bacon and egg burgers and another early night with a bright moon rising through the trees. I also got to throw my scraps out to the possums who quickly came along to eat them.
The next moring we hung around the park while Rod mowed the lawn. This helped Ron out a little (not much) but gave Rod a fix. The kids got adventurous and crossed the river in their clothes, to try and get to the other side to fish. However, they left it too late as we were just about to head off. Ron’s brother Nipper, who is also heavily involved in Warrawee Park, invited us to go trout fishing– which we did!
So after lunch we headed off to a private dam trout fishing. They were not on the chew as much as previous times visited but in all there were 6 caught. I caught one. Quite different to saltwater fishing let me tell you.
We returned to camp close to dark with $6 worth of chips, stoked the fire and cooked two trout. We had trout and chips for dinner. Rod actually liked it, which I didn’t think he would. Anyway, the weather was coming in so off to bed we went.
The rains started and so did the wind. Rod was getting grey hairs thinking we were going to get flooded in, however I was keen to sleep!
Ron came around the next morning, we had a chat and headed off towards Devonport; but not without stopping at the Cherry Shed first. Totally overpriced so we left.
Oh I also finished my book – finally! First novel ever.
Back in Devonport we dropped the kids off to mini golf (voucher again) and went to do the washing. We returned to get the kids and headed off and got pizza for lunch, a nice treat. After that we did some much needed groceries and then parked up down the esplanade so the kids could play and we hung out the clothes to get them dry. There was amazing moon rise that eveniing.
We cooked up dinner and went back to where the ferry leaves from and parked there the night. We had to throw some of our clothes through the dryer just to finish them all off.
Easter day was quite unconventional; we only remembered a half hour after we woke up. There was no chocolate exchanging as we still have chocolates from the Cadbury Factory, but we did take another block of chocolate on the boat - it was Easter!
We left and drove 30m to line up for the car ferry back to the mainland.
We spent $100 and upgraded to a cabin. This was based on the notion that there were very rough seas and having a cabin would be a good option. Also the fact we could lie down, sleep, have showers and chill out, helped in our decision making.
I did a little work on the computer, Rod read the book, the one I finished, he also went and watched a movie with the kids. The kids sat on the top bunks playing on their laptops. I felt a tad queasy and ended up watching The Cup with Mitchell in the afternoon. The boat was running a little late as there were not one, but two cruise ships leaving Melbourne Port as we were coming into it. Quite a nice sight however getting on the dark side to get a real good look.
We arrived in Port and drove around the corner and parked up along the waterfront for the night.
PHOTOS: Devonport, Latrobe, Devonport
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