Gidday all,

Left Hopetoun on Sunday, came to Warracknabeal,a small town on the road south. There were some street stalls in the main street, so after fuelling up we went to investigate. Bought some indigenous herbs and some quondong cordial, both yummy. Then went to the pub grounds where they were having a slow cooked ribs cooking comp. The product produced was free to try, so we filled up on ribs of all flavours, also yummy. Had a coffee and a look around and headed off.

Ended up at Little Desert National Park just outside Dimboola, no one about so camped up for the night. In the morning went exploring some sandy tracks in the park, the one we wanted to take to continue south was closed, so back to Dimboola and on the hiway again.

Spent the day on the hiway to Ballarat, would rather be on the dirt, passed through Ballarat after stocking up on fresh veggies, which we were low on since the border. Found a camp about 40k out in a state forest.

Will get a bit closer to Melbourne and hold up for a few days, then go and see our friends till we float over to Tassie next Wednesday.