Hold the phone! A long drive home and our second home

We went for a Sunday drive to Coonawarra. Not to buy wine. To buy a couple of single beds off a bloke, for our holiday house. 

Hold the phone! 

Yes! I didn't buy wine!

Even more so, yes! We are buying a holiday house. Bit exciting. I am trying not to wish the rest of the year away, waiting for the settlement date on our two bedroom stone house. Our second home will be in Pelicans Point, about half an hour away. A quiet seaside hamlet just down the road. Got it for a steal. It will be available for holiday rental early next year, tell all your friends. 

Anyhoo, I should have bought wine. The Land Rover overheated on the way home, and it took us 50 minutes to drive 26 kays. A mate came and towed us home. Boggy has some mechanical work to do.....

We kept having to stop, to let it cool and put more water in. These are some of the views at our stops along the way. It became a bit of a thing for me to take a photo every time we stopped, with my phone of course. Times when I wish I'd remembered to take my 'good' camera.

We did stop at the IGA in Penola for supplies for the way home. I did let the kids and Boggy have one each. Should have bought wine.

Could have bought wine. The Leconfield cellar door was twenty metres away.

I've also joined all the local buy, swap and sell facebook groups and am becoming a Gumtree ninja. So much cheap stuff out there, some crap too. We are furnishing it pretty well though, on the cheap. 

I have this hankering to call our new house, La Casa Pelicano( The pelican house). What do you think? I want it to have a mediterranean feel, but I fear it is going to turn out hodge podge shabby chic. But who cares! Hello! HOLIDAY HOUSE!!


If you had a holiday house, what would you call it?

What's your favourite website for looking for and booking holiday houses? (yes this is sneaky research)

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Driving through beauty

My place in time #49 - I had to stop the car to take a photo

I don't know about you, but I love beautiful scenery as I drive. Little snippets of charm to break up the drive. 

Yesterday Summer and I went for a drive to Penola. We had an awesome day. 

In these parts there are quite often trees lining the roadsides that tower of the road and meet in the middle. 

This is just a couple of those, if I had of stopped to take photos of all the beautiful scenes it would have taken me all day to get there and home. Not to mention, standing on the road isn't the safest place to spend a lot of time! 

The turn to the left goes to Kalangadoo. This is where I grew up. I have youthful memories of this avenue. The sunlight flickering through the trees as we drove through. I think it's beautiful. It is beautiful. We came through here a little over a week ago, leaves blew around as the car swept through. The weather has been wild the last week and the leaves have just about gone. I will have to capture this avenue when the leaves have returned.

A sculpture

My place in time #32

I took the kids for a drive to Beachport, Tuesday of last week. I needed a drive, or needed to strap the kids in their seats, turn on the radio and just drive. It always seems to do the trick. 

We spent an hour at the playground, luckily it didn't rain, but it was windy as, so we didn't worry about taking our buckets to the beach. A stroll down the beach, digging, collecting; would have been awesome. Next time. 

It's been awhile since we've been in Beachport. I spotted a sculpture tied to a couple of posts out the front of Bompas, one of the fine local establishments. I'm not sure how long it's been here, maybe I have seen her before and hadn't really taken too much notice. 

She looks right at home, carefree, riding her bike along the foreshore streets of the sleepy seaside town. She could also just as well fit in when Beachport is bursting at the seems with holiday makers, bringing their bikes on the back of vans and cars for leisurely rides on sunny days.

'My place in time' is a local history project started by Blackcurrant photography

Lake Ratzcastle

Nig and Marg (Bretts brother and his wife) went camping at Lake Ratzcastle, near Edenhope in Victoria.

We went for a Sunday drive to have lunch with them.