Day 3
Travel Location: Seaspray,Australia
We reached Seaspray on the 90 Miles Beach safely. That seemed today not a certainty at all times, but that is the end of the story, let’s start at the beginning. We woke up on a sunny morning after spending the night in the downstairs bedroom. After a walk along the lake we packed up our gear and drove towards the town centre of Beechworth.
Beechworth is famous because of its place in history with Ned Kelly. Ned Kelly and the Gang were infamous bushrangers best known for their armour. The town was the showplace where Ned Kelly was sentenced to hard labour and later where he had the last stand off with the police and where his preliminary hearing was held. We joined a Ned Kelly tour which was telling the whole story in relation to the various buildings. The tour guide almost looked like Ned Kelly.
After the tour, we drove on Gorge Road which is a scenic drive around Beechworth and then drove on the Great Alpine Road towards Sale. The Great Alpine road climbs up the Mountain and is very windy and had to be driven in low gear. On the top, Mount Hotham, we could see snow and we could see the ski lifts; truly an amazing view and absolutely to be recommended to drive.
On this drive is where our problems with the car started. Having had problems with two wheel driving on the first day, now we had squeaking sounds on the left wheel while driving slow and in four wheel drive (like the axel is loose). After a couple of stops we wanted to change back to two wheel drive, but couldn’t change the mode. After we reached a spot with Mobile phone reception, we called Britz and asked for help. We asked to change the car as soon as possible as we were no longer comfortable with ours. We drove on, now downhill and faster and didn’t have the problem anymore. After another 200 km, we reached Seaspray with 90 miles of beach. We put up our tent and started to remove the language while waiting for the replacement car arriving from Melbourne.
We ended the evening with the arrival of the new campervan and moving the stuff across. With the arrival of the car also came the rain. As they say, it’s Melbourne weather where you can expect four seasons in a day. We cooked the dinner under an umbrella and for the first time had to eat inside our bushcamper.
