Deb and Reid's Holidays: 2012

Ice cream from Ettrick tea rooms

Yum!! Goldrush & goody goody gum drop!

Climbing on Fox Glacier

Just back from a full day clambering on Fox Glacier in the rain!!

Queenstown

Lunch at Pier 19 on the foreshore in Queenstown

Te Anau sunset

Watching the sun set over the lake from the motel balcony

Te Anau

Sitting in the sun on the shore of Lake Te Anau

Lumden

We're off on our NZ holiday! There's almost no traffic on the road and most shops/towns are closed

We've discovered a cafe in Lumsden to stop for a coffee (it's not the best coffee I've ever had!!)

Brew Bar

Lunch in the beautiful Dunedin sun in the Octogon

We're on our way home after a great weekend camping. Stopped at the White Hart Hotel in Horsham for lunch!

$11 Parma - isn't as bad as it looks, either that or I'm really hungry! I've definitely had worse!

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Location:Western Hwy,Horsham,Australia

Eastern Lookout, Wyperfeld

View from the Eastern Lookout at the Wyperfeld National Park

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Location:Ring Rd,Yaapeet,Australia

Easter camping

We're on our way to the Wyperfeld National Park for the weekend, stopped for lunch by the side of the road

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Location:Calder Hwy,Charlton,Australia

South Australia

We went to the Big Day Out in Adelaide and the spent the rest of the weekend having a little explore around South Australia.

It wasn't the best Big Day Out this year plus tickets were expensive and the Adelaide event was scaled down. We still had a great day!

On Saturday we went out to the little town of Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills for a wonder down the main street.

The weather on Sunday was terrible. We headed to the McLaren Vale for lunch, but none of the vineyards had any tables available so we ate at The Barn in the town. It was ok.
Then we went for a drive down to Victor Harbor, but it was so cold and miserable that we just stopped for a coffee and headed back to Adelaide.

Sunset at Glenelg Beach

Wine tasting at Shaw and Smith. They make 4 wines, so for their wine tasting you pay $14 to taste each wine plus you get a cheese plate. It was a beautiful day and the setting was spectacular.

Sculpture at Brighton ($1500)

Lake Eildon

We headed up to Lake Eildon for the Australia Day long weekend and stayed in the National Park at Devil's Cove.

There was a big party at the campsite on the first night which was a bit obnoxious, but we were pretty tired and thankfully we weren't in the same section, otherwise it was a really nice spot.

I'm not sure what I think about the lake - it was beautiful, but it looked pretty gross for swimming - it would be better if you had a boat.

We walked through the Candlebark Nature Walk - there were so many butterflies and it was really pretty.

I tried for ages to get pictures of the butterflies but they just blend into background - you'd walk over a bridge or by a fallen log and 20 or 30 butterflies would burst out from below.

Then we hauled ourselves up the Merlo's Lookout Track - it was a short walk, but all up hill. We were pretty pleased with ourselves when we make it to the summit.

Candlebark Nature Walk

LOOK AT ALL THE NATURE

View of the lake from a roadside lookout between the National Park and Eildon town

Our campsite

Merlo's Lookout track
Are you sure we're going the right way??

Nearly there

YAY we made it!!

This little fella just wandered out on the road in front of us

View from roadside lookout on the road between Eildon and Jamieson.
The lookout was stunning but the road was so windy and some of the on-coming driving was a bit erratic! Wouldn't recommend for the faint of heart