Cruising the Lakes, Gippsland

Saturday the 14th of April was another slow start before we all wandered into the town of Metung for coffees and to check out the weekly Saturday morning produce markets.

After stocking up on olives, cheeses and fudge, we all headed back to the Cheney's holiday house to get ready for an afternoon of Cruising the Lakes.

The kids all donned their wetsuits and jumped onto the biscuit, Nina looked to be petrified but every time we asked her if she wanted to come back on the boat she said no, insisting that she was having fun!

Nina's face says it all

They are all having fun

Getting game

By about 2 o'clock we had reached the beautiful fishing town of Lakes Entrance...

Lakes Entrance

The kids spent some time acquainting themselves with some of the locals... Before we had fish and Chips for lunch on the foreshore...

The girls saying hello to the black swans 

Chook, sitting in a nest

Group photo, the Bennett's & the Cheney's, Lakes Entrance

Some clever woodwork, Lakes Entrance

Fish and Chips on the foreshore

We then walked across a bridge over the lake and we were on the beach, it was amazing!

Harry hits the beach with the gals

Lakes Entrance Beach

Richard has another one of those really hard days at the office

We then cruised back to Metung, with the kids still in tow, on the biscuit.

When we arrived back at the house, Richard cooked dinner, after earlier visiting a fishmonger at Lakes Entrance.

It turned into a seafood feast... Octopus, fish and prawns.

Seafood galore

Around the fire

After dinner,  the kids played monopoly while the adults sat around the fire shooting the breeze. By about 1am, the boys were in fine form and decided to ride their pushbikes to the pub.

Shayne and Richard, in fine form

Riding to the pub, in the dark, Digger the dog leads the way

Megan and I saw it as a great escape, so we made a dash to our respective beds. The boys were back before long, the pub was well and truly closed, or closed when they saw them coming :-)

Either way it was a great night.

This morning, Sunday the 15th of April... I got up early and went to the laundromat, holiday or not, the daily chores are relentless. 

Everyone was packing up when I got back to the house. Shayne's parents stopped in for a visit before a quick lunch and then the Cheney family were off back to Traralgon for a week of school and work.

This afternoon, we chilled out and felt a bit lost without our mates... We wandered into the Metung pub to see if the footy was on, but alas, we are in Victoria and an Eagles - GWS game simply doesn't take priority.

Chilling out at the Metung pub

So we wandered back to the house for an afternoon snooze before an early dinner at the Metung pub and an early night.

Tomorrow we head towards Echuca where we meet Dad (Phillip) my brother Leon and my two nephews Phillip & Ale for a week cruising the Murray River on a houseboat.

Life is good and I feel blessed for such wonderful experiences on a daily basis, our thanks to the Cheney's for a wonderful weekend and for their amazing hospitality.... we had such a good time, we're heading back to Metung after we cruise the Murray.