Pa in Gun Turret

Australian Tank

Centurion Bridgelayer

Day 24 - Woke to the usual noises you get in most caravan parks first thing in the morning.  You get the early birds heading on to their next destination or the neighbours who get up and start talking to anybody at the top of their lungs as if everybody should already be awake.  Anyway we enjoyed the warmth and comfort of our cosy bed for a few minutes longer before we decided to make a start for the day.  Lovely warm shower first up and then coffee and porridge. ( Good start for cholesterol watchers).   We decided rather than head back to Leongatha when we drop the van off to Vanguard tomorrow we should go further and do some more adventuring before we have to come back to Melbourne for the van.  We think we would like to check Lakes Entrance out again and hopefully the weather will be fine this time.  Pa checked out the accommodation at the Entrance on line but we finally decided to just wing it and see what we can get when we get there. We wanted to check out one of the other wineries this morning so we headed out to  Fowles Winery about 20 klms out of town.  Sounded good in the brochure we got from the Information Bureau and that was where the wine we had with our Chinese on Friday night came from.  Got there but there wasn't much to see or do so we had a lovely capuccino instead (strange going to a winery and having a coffee).  We took a scenic drive home through Avenel where there are lovely old buildings and some very impressive properties.  Obviously it is a big equine area if the Equine Studs and the horses are anything to go by. We  headed back to Puckapunyal Army Base Tank Museum on the other side of town where we spent about 3 hours looking at lots of army artifacts and lots of old tanks and personnel carriers etc.  It cost us $6 each for admission (that was for seniors - I ask you, do we look like seniors) but the admission was well worth it.  We left there and headed back to the van for a bite to eat.  Not too much because it was about 3pm and we were going over to the Pub across the road for tea. We stopped to talk to the Park Manager on our way in and he confirmed our original thoughts about what was in his coke can - Scotch!!!  He told us that's what he had.  We sure do meet lots of colourful characters. Anyway we killed a couple of hours on the Internet looking at our house plans and then headed over for tea.  Thought I would be good and ordered a scotch fillet steak with veges and Pa ordered grilled Chicken Breast with prawns and scallops and seafood sauce and chips - Naughty, Naughty.  Found out after I ordered that the steak was a 600g fillet.  Way more than I could eat.  Anyway did the best I could and ended up doing a Grandma and taking a doggy bag.  Pa enjoyed his chicken and of course the chips which he is not getting too many of those these days.  Headed back home and watched a bit of telly had showers and hit the sack.  Another cool night.