Our plan was to find a nice spot in The Grampians National Park to spend a few nights while we explored the national park but at $38 per night for nothing we ended up picking Halls Gap Lake Tourist Park which was not that much more for a powered site & hot showers! Parks Victoria have got something out of whack here, no day costs {when they have bucket loads of day visitors to places like this} and charge ridiculous fees for the use of a drop loo!
After setting up the kids did a little schoolwork while watching all of the birdlife that came in around the camper. After this e popped into town to have a quick look around and have a treat of ice-cream.
With a full day to explore the national park we got up early to only be disappointed by the terrible weather. It was going to rain but we decided to brave it, fingers crossed we could at least see some of The Grampians. Our first point for the day was Boroka Lookout, way up in the mountains and with a lovely view.
Next stop was Reed Lookout and The Balconies. When we arrived we could barely see one step in front of us, oh dear here goes our day of exploring was the first thought but we decided to get out of the car and have a look around anyway. This was the view:
It started to rain so we stopped our walk and figured we would try further up and around, hoping the weather would improve for us. So off to Mackenzie Falls we headed and as you will see from the pictures below the weather turned around and we climbed more stairs than the kids could count!
What a beautiful set of falls, with so much more to explore but given we had little water {no food for the ever hungrer Kaleb} and Kyla was over walking we decided it was best to climb the stairs back to the top. The national park also had three spots on the otherside with Aboriginal Art that we decided to drive around and explore, sadly however they had remained closed still after a fire early last year.
We traveled around the outside of the national park and happened to come across, randomly one very large & scary looking Koala.
With the need for lunch high on everyone's list we actually ended up driving around to Stawell, a lovely town on the side of a hill and surprisingly it even has a functioning mine. We got a lovely lunch from a bakery in town before going for a drive around to explore a little before heading back to the caravan park.
The kids had fun when we got home playing with a few other children and even feeding the birds. They had birds landing on their heads and eating from their hands, they loved every minute of it.
Given the weather was still nice and we still had plenty of day light we decided to head into town to take in one of the other smaller walks. It was a great walk up past the swimming pool that went around in a loop. Nice and easy for all of us and a great way to end our day. I am glad we went as we even found a little art.
Another night watching the wild life fly and hop in before heading to bed ready to head towards the cost tomorrow.
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