Our Wicked Walkabout

We have spent three days in Central Gippsland.

The motto for the area is the Middle of Everywhere … love it!

What is in the middle of everywhere?

For us: Yarram, Welshpool, port Welshpool, Alberton, Port Albert, and Tarraville.

First stop… the church! The building had a sign out front, saying “church is open”. And it was… just there was no one around to tell us anything… just open!

We started our exploration with the Town Of Yarram, where we are staying.

We then headed into town, to the info Center… aka old court house… and art gallery.

Yarram is best known for its street art… honestly some of it was hard to find, as it was inside businesses, that were not open.

There is also some lovely old buildings which they also provided information about.

We then headed out of town to visit the oldest church in Gippsland… yup, church nerds.

We passed the Victoria Hotel in Alberton.

Tarraville is currently a village with about 6 houses… and a church.. at the corner of this and that street. Not much, but once it was the hub of the area.

Yesterday, we headed to the coast, first to Port Albert. This port is found at the other end of 90 mile beach, which starts at Lakes Entrance, where we had lunch on Tuesday.

We then headed over to Welshpool, and Port Welshpool… yup, two different towns… next to each other…

The current Jetty is a rebuild; the original one went out of service, was eaten by termites and ship worms, then eventually burnt. In its day is was the major port for shipping to Tasmania. Cattle and other goods were taken out the jetty and loaded for Tasmania, and then later also Sydney. A ferry even ran from here for a few years.

It is currently mostly used by fishing, and has everything a fisher-person might need.

On our way back, as the tide was out, the birds were having a feast in the shallows… we looked down to see why!

We then headed over to the local for lunch!

Today, as the temperature went back to HOT, we headed inland to visit the cool forests and rivers.

Our first stop was Agnes Falls.

We then tried to go to the Tarra-Bulga National Park, to see the suspension bridge… we probably should had done some research… it was closed. But it was an interesting drive… the GPS took us the shortest route, just probably not the best…

The bridge was closed.. but I did go for a short bush walk along another trail… until I could no longer walk safely… (wrong shoes)

We headed home on a paved road… not that it was much better than the gravel!