This will include Ballarat...
DAY 32: Travel day, Qantas internal flight and hire car (Toyota Camry) to Joy & Peter’s in Langwarrin, south of Melbourne.
DAY 33: After breakfast, Joy & Peter drove us first to their daughter Katie’s to meet their grandsons Damen and Brandon. Katie explained that houses were referred to by their square meterage and Peter pointed out that single storey dwellings were houses (the term ‘bungalow’ refers to what we would call a ‘granny flat’ and almost all houses are detacheed so UK terms ‘terraced’ and ‘semi’ don’t indicate size. Then off to a village called Sassefras, where we strolled around a few small shops and purchased some unusual teas. Next, Mt.Dandenong (about 660m), where we took in a hazy panoramic view back to Melbourne etc. and an ‘English’ garden. We then moved on for coffee and some very indulgent cakes at Olinda Golf Course Clubhouse and a close look at the huge Gum trees (Joy explained that it was the oily nature of the Gum trees’ foliage that fuelled the bush fires). We spotted a Kookaburra as we left the car park for a tour around the Dandenong range area and on to Cardinia Park to find and photograph some kangaroos (yet to find out what a group of kangaroos are called). After a short while back at ‘home’, we ventured out again, this time visiting the coast at Frankstone, including a walk on the jetty. Finally, on for a particularly good ‘indian’ meal at ‘Two Lil Indians’, Callum and a tour of the Christmas lights around the local housing estates (it’s very difficult to feel Christmassy!)