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  18th May Today started with a plan to cover a few K's and head to Streaky Bay with some sight seeing on the way. It turned into a day of rocks.  Not what we were expecting.  We turned off the Eyre highway onto the Wundinna tourist route. The first stop was Polda rock, a granite outcrop that has a stone wall around the perimeter to direct any rainwater into a small catchment.  At the very top, there is a rock pool with hundreds of tadpoles in it. The next stop was Mt Wundinna the second largest granite monolith in the Southern Hemisphere.  We climbed all the way to the top and around it. After lunch we continued along the dirt roads back to the Eyre Highway and on to Minnipa to see Pildappa rock which has scalloped edges, it was a lot more interesting than we expected.  Once again we climbed all over it and around it. By this time it was starting to get late so we decided to look at one more rocky outcrop called Tcharkulda which has a free camp.  It w...

9th May - 11th May On the first day, we drove to Koroit, a small town halfway between Warrnambool and Port Fairy. We had planned to stay two nights but in the end, we stopped for three and were given the third night free at the caravan park. A lot of business were closed as they had the Irish Festival the week before and most of the town had tested positive for COVID.  On the first day, we went to Warrnambool. At the Thunder Point lookout, we got chatting to some whale watchers (we didn't see any whales) who recommended Hopkins Falls as a local place to visit.  So after our walk around Thunder Point, we headed out to the falls. At the falls we got talking to some more locals who recommended the Trestle Bridge on the Timboon - Camperdown rail trail and the Timboon Ice cream shop.  Both were top tips. The next day we headed to Port Fairy and explored the historic town, we walked along the wharf, then the beach, and had a drink at the local pub where we met a conspiracy theo...