Day 18 – Warnambool to the Grampians

Expected to take several hours to get up to the Grampians but only took a couple. Sunny start to the day – hooray! Rain and looming cloud slowly appeared in the direction we were heading in and couldn’t see the tops of the mountains by the time we were climbing up into them. Sun reappeared for lunch in a reserve not too far from Hall’s Gap. Cheeky rosellas tried hard to separate us from our picnic but did not succeed. Frontal approaches, flanking attempts stealth attacks via our arms and heads were all attempted. Gave them a few crumbs from the bags in the end – reward for persistence.
Arrived Hall’s Gap and eventually decided on Takaru Bush Resort, around 4 km out of the main town centre and possibly smaller and quieter than the bigger places in town (we’re really quite antisocial people I’ve decided!). Lots of kangaroos lying around all over the place. apparently the locals get away with a bit of lawn mowing and an awful lot of lazing around!