We left Shady Acres caravan park at 10.30am. in bright sunshine & with a blue sky. However, a keen wind was blowing & the temperature was only 13C. The countryside was beautiful & we saw many familiar spring flowers - laburnum, broom, lilac & even bluebells! We were quite high up in hilly country & the views were magnificent - at times we could see for miles. This was sheep & cattle country & several of the animals had lambs or calves.
As we lost height, the temperature rose fairly rapidly & soon reached 18C. A sign at the roadside advertised lamb sausages, which seemed unusual to us - we were sure we'd never eaten any of those before.
We stopped in Meredith to photograph the unusual church & saw a sign pointing to Steiglitz (10km away). Apparently, they were going to have an "Airing of the Quilts" tomorrow, the 13th - what a shame that we were a day too early. We wondered if they would be showing new quilts, or if they would be airing those they'd been using all winter.
As we drove through Geelong, the Bay looked stunning - bright turquoise water glistening in the sun, which was now hot on my side of the car. It was now 23C & a glorious day. En-route to Portarlington, we saw that the bright red bottlebrushes were in flower & the yellow oxalis was still covering the verges.
We reached the caravan park at 12.20pm where Bob booked us in for a week.
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