20120229 VIC Paynesville

20120229 Paynesville is surrounded by Lake King and Lake Victoria in the middle of the Gippsland Lakes and Raymond Island which is just off the shoreline and is assessable by a car ferry and the island is also home to a large Koala colony.

On the way to Paynesville.

We parked up on the point blowing a gale, dick head Des said it wasn't cold so I wore shorts on our walk to town and froze all the way, all he could do was laugh, he gets great pleasure out of my discomfits. 

Roast chicken and vegies for tea followed by some drinks (port & stones mac) and a game of snakes & ladders, shit head won but I won playing Pass the Pig.  Believe me you need the Port or Stones Mac to warm up.

Taken from the town center facing Raymond Island you can see the weather is cloudy and trust me it was bloody cold and windy.
The Old Pub Paynesville was established in 1880 and is situated on The Esplanade at Paynesville.







There were two pianos I spotted one in the laundry Matt & one out the front of a Hair and Beauty salon with signs for anyone to play, now different is that.





020120301 We woke to another shitty day of wind and rain we can't put the generator on because it will get wet and my laptop's flat so I'm stuck in this cabby house with gristle guts and nothing to do, I might as well have a drink (just kidding).  We just can't seem to get an early start this bed is just so'oo comfortable and the point the weather being so cold, we don't get out of bed till 8.30 or 9.00 and by the time we stuff around were not getting on the road till ten or eleven, but who cares.  We were going to stay for a couple of days, but the wind is getting worse so Des decided we better find a sheltered spot, so we packed up and headed for Sales.
Location: Paynesville VIC 3880, Australia

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  1. dnlaroundozMarch 8, 2012 at 1:39 PM

    Hey Leonie, love reading your blog, photos are great. Plenty of adventures to be had out here.

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