{"id":23351,"date":"2011-03-16T03:19:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T07:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/23351\/great-australia-road-trip-page-4\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","slug":"great-australia-road-trip-page-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/23351\/great-australia-road-trip-page-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Australia Road Trip \u2013 Page Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 5 – Monday – September 20, 2010<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weather:\u00a0 Clear, Sunny & Cool<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Destination:\u00a0 Foster, Victoria, Australia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Odometer Reading:\u00a0 96097<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Total Distance Traveled:\u00a0 754 kilometers (468 miles)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Price of Fuel:\u00a0 Cobargo – $1.34.7 a liter, 57.41 liters, $77.33; Lakes Entrance – $1.16.9 a liter, 55.54 liters, $64.93<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Route Taken:\u00a0 Narooma to Tilba Tilba to Cobargo to Bega to Eden to Genoa to Cann River to Orbost to Lakes Entrance to Bairnsdale to Sale to Yarram to Foster<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Highlights:\u00a0 Sleeping last night was much more comfortable since we made up the bed in the back table area.\u00a0 At least I didn\u2019t feel like the ceiling was coming down on me all night.\u00a0 I still woke up several times during the night just because my body clock is adjusting.\u00a0 At one point when I woke up I peeked out the back window and saw a bandicoot crawling on the fence right behind the motorhome.\u00a0 It was only about a foot away and it never noticed me as I sat in the dark watching.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Before we left Narooma we drove around the town and over to the breakwater to take a stroll to see if we could see any whales.\u00a0 Narooma is a very quaint town with beautiful views.\u00a0 From the breakwater we could look back and see our campground, but try as we might we did not see any whales out in the ocean.\u00a0 We did see a couple of sea lions sunning themselves on the rocks and took quite a few pictures.\u00a0 My camera started giving me problems so my shots of the sea lions didn’t take, but the Man got them on video.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We left Narooma around 10:00 and headed on down the road.\u00a0 The road, which is full of curves and winding turns, took us around the Snowy Mountains area.\u00a0 There were a lot of farming fields, with rolling hills, that seem to be greener than green.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Stops:\u00a0 We made it to Lakes Entrance and decided to stop and have lunch.\u00a0 The Man was craving seafood.\u00a0 Too bad we didn’t call ahead and let them know we were coming since no restaurant seemed to be serving even though it was just after 1:00 p.m.\u00a0 It looked like the Ferryman\u2019s Caf\u00e9 was open, and they had an interesting looking special on the board outside so we went in.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The guy at the counter said he was working on the cakes and it would be awhile before they would be cooking again.\u00a0 Say what?\u00a0 We didn\u2019t want to wait so we took a few pictures of the wood carvings in the park area along the water, did some more grocery shopping and then continued on down the road.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Where We Stayed:\u00a0 The Man pushed himself hard today trying to make it to Philip Island before sunset to see the penguins.\u00a0 I knew it wasn\u2019t possible and he had to give it up in Foster.\u00a0 We ended up at the Prom Central Caravan Park right before dark.\u00a0 The space for the night was $28.00.\u00a0 It had been raining there for most of the day and the park was all soggy and muddy so we stayed inside for the night.\u00a0 Since its right in Foster, there really isn\u2019t much to see other than the neighbors\u2019 homes anyway.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Ate:\u00a0 We ate in the motorhome again.\u00a0 We had some smoked salmon, fried squid, salad and crackers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 5 – Monday – September 20, 2010 Weather:\u00a0 Clear, Sunny & Cool Destination:\u00a0 Foster, Victoria, Australia Odometer Reading:\u00a0 96097 Total Distance Traveled:\u00a0 754 kilometers (468 miles) Price of Fuel:\u00a0 Cobargo – $1.34.7 a liter, 57.41 liters, $77.33; Lakes Entrance – $1.16.9 a liter, 55.54 liters, $64.93 Route Taken:\u00a0 Narooma to Tilba Tilba to Cobargo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,837,2,25],"tags":[651,2571,2573,2574,2570,2572,2431],"class_list":["post-23351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-nature-2","category-other","category-world","tag-australia","tag-beach","tag-foster","tag-motor-home","tag-narooma","tag-ocean","tag-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116514,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23351\/revisions\/116514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}