Kind of a lazy day today – we did visit the Buchan (pronounced Buck-n) Cave Reserve and toured the Royal Cave.

It was fantastic and we only bumped our heads a few times on the narrow, short passageways. It was 17 degrees C with a 95% humidity but it wasn’t steamy. There were quite a few interesting formations and the guide had a lot of stories and anecdotes to spice up the tour.

Before the tour started, we had a little time to explore – and we saw our first wild kangaroos. The park is home to some Eastern Grey Kangaroos and they were on the move through the campground area. Of course, we didn’t have the camera ready and we were so startled by their appearance that we didn’t get any photos 🙁 The other thing we noticed is that there are a lot of native and imported trees planted – and marked with tags saying where they are from. It was neat to find a

Canadian Poplar
– and to actually see that it is

fall here and the leaves are changing colour and falling. The kids who were waiting for the tour were covering each other with leaves and doing the typical kid shuffle through the fallen leaves.

After the tour, we drove to Bairnsdale and then back to Lakes Entrance with a side trip to Metung to look at Victoria Lake. Erik and Reed will be interested to know that there is an EB in Bairnsdale – no, we didn’t stop.

The rest of the day was pretty much taken up with napping, and going to the Safeway store to buy a few groceries for dinner and snacks for tomorrow’s car drive. Right outside the Safeway is a fisherman’s co-op store selling fresh fish – so of course we had to get more fresh cooked prawns for dinner. They were excellent.

We leave Lakes Entrance tomorrow and are heading for Phillip Island, the home of the Little Penguin colony. Not sure if there will be internet access for a while – will post when able.

Temperature on Monday: 22 C – partly sun, partly cloud