The morning tea stop was at Portland. This is the site of the first settlement in Victoria - by Henty in 1834. This is the only deep-water harbour between Melbourne and Adelaide - it is a very pretty place and deserves more time than we can afford on this trip.
On leaving Portland we travelled about 5km along the Horsham road to a serious road accident which would block the highway for some hours - so we turned around and took a 1 hour detour. We travelled through Hamilton to Cherrypool (photo) about 50 km south of Horsham for lunch and then set off for our overnight at Horsham.
The drive from Portland was relatively uninteresting through country which is clearly in drought. Just South of Horsham the locusts started to become a problem so radiator guards (photo) were a necessity.
After cleaning our cars and caravans of splattered locusts here we are - enjoying happy hour again - this is exhausting but somebody has to do it!
PS. Young people pitched their tent next to Wayne and greeted him as 'Old Timer'. Thank goodness I am Phil the Younger.
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