Victoria is only 25km from Mt. Gambier and there isn’t much to announce the fact, you’d barely even see the sign as you come across the border. There are lots of forests around this area and I like it. I’m not seeing oceans of the really dry brown/green of Gum trees but instead there is lots of dark green. It a bit of a treat for me.

That evening I arrived in a little town called Dartmoor. It had a nice free camping area on the edge of the township. There were quite a few people there. Since I’ve left the Nullarbor I haven’t seen too much caravan or camper traffic on the roads or at any of the usual place you find them. It’s a tiny place, Dartmoor but it does have some interesting sculptures. After the great war the peopl of the town planted trees as a memorial to the people who died in the fighting. Trees don’t last forever though and some were starting to become unhealthy or were too close to houses. Rather than ust cut them down though they got a chainsaw sculptor to turn the trunks into monuments and the results are fantastic. As I was seeing them the sun was going down so the pictures aren’t clear.

As soon as I could get off the highway I did. The road is not bad but there is quite a bit of traffic and no shoulder to speak of. So I followed a parallel route to the main highway towards Warnambool. I’d heard that Port Fairy is worth a visit, the tourist info brochure makes it look like a really pretty fishing village so I went back down to the coast to see it for myself. Unfortunatley not knowing anything about Australian holidays it was Labour day weekend and there was a folk music festival in Port Fairy. The highway was insanely busy, twenty thousand people were in a town with normally only a few thousand for the weekend. It was bit full-on, a car pulled right across the road in front of me, never even looked in my direction and a woman with a baby stroller pushed it straight into me while I was stopped at the kerb. Normal rules don’t apply this weekend I think and fearing for my life I decded to move on

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