11th Feb Saturday

No work today.
I went to the beach today.
Went for a explore/drive.
I went to:

Middle Tarwin
Tarwin Tower
Pound Creek
Venus Bay
Inverloch
Wonthaggi
Cape Paterson

Man! The roads between Fish Creek and Tarwin Lower were shocking, some great pot holes! Actually all the roads today were! Australia for you.
Middle Tarwin is a farming settlement. Tarwin Tower is a settlement built on the banks of the Tarwin. Original aye? :-) It's obviously a fishing village.
I didnt like Tarwin Lower much, but it was quite cool. To see a little old lady fishing off the jetty. Next off to Venus beach, when I got there. A group of young guys about my age were training on the beach, looked like team building. Found out later it was the local football club. Or AFL if your not from Victoria. :-)
Had a quick chat with the lifesaver, before he went for a paddleboard.

I rained away, so jumped in the car next stop. Inverloch.
While there had a cool chat with a a few guards , they were getting ready for IRB race training. Thought its pretty cool, the clubs here have plenty of teams per club that race IRB's.
Then got shown around their brand new $1.5 million, club rooms. Wow it's so big. Great new clubrooms it's attracting alot of new members. Including a family that transferred from another local club, after talking to Kathy who was manning the canteen. She told me about the clubs construction development, membership issues and the clubs past. Wasn't a great past, and some great fund raising, government grants etc. Made it possible. After my next stop I noticed a bit of jealousy in their neighboring club.
Next stop: Wonthaggi SLC in Cape Paterson
While thier I found a small run down patrol building, but full of very committed members who were full of stories, young and old. Malcolm was pretty cool to talk to, it seemed like he deserved a bit more respect than he got. Prob because of the way he patrols though.
Remind me, ive gotta email Malcolm, some pictures of Tairua surf club.
I enjoyed my time at Wonthaggi SLC.
Next was off to Cape Paterson SLC. I quite like Cape Paterson took plenty of cool photos I liked. Dam I wish I brought the USB cable.
Anyway I had a great day, even though I had to change the tyre as I got a puncture outside Wonthaggi SLC gravel driveway, bugger.

By this time I thought it was time to go home, changed the tyre hit the road again.

Venus Bay SLC
-38.70499,145.813168

Inverloch SLC
-38.646338,145.701978

Wonthaggi SLC
-38.673206,145.619255

Cape Paterson SLC
-38.675891,145.61033

Blog finished draft 23:48, 17/02/2012