Adam Here since the start... Lifetime Members 10,282 Member For: 21y 9m 12d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 05/02/06 12:52 AM Share Posted 05/02/06 12:52 AM TIME: 9:30am to leave 10:00am Sharp!! LOCATION: Wilsons Promotory. DATE: Sunday 5th February.MEET: Bunnings Fountain Gate. BRING: Camera, Hat & sunscreen, Footy or cricket bat, swimmers if a hot day, might be a good idea to bring a cut lunch and drinks.ROUTE: Sth Gippsland Hwy. Maps will be handed out on the day.<div class='bbimg'><div class='bbimg'></div></div>WILSONS PROMONTORYWilsons Promontory National Park, the furthest south one can go on mainland Australia, could almost be an island with 80 miles of coastline except for the connection to the mainland at it's north east corner. One main road extends to Tidal River village, which has an information centre, on the promontories east coast.With its rugged granite peaks. the backdrop to white sandy beaches; and miles of walking tracks with plenty to see, this is not surprisingly one of Victoria's most popular holiday spots. The promontory is teaming with Australian native wildlife, including emus, koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, kookaburras and a host of brightly coloured wild birds. <div class='bbimg'><div class='bbimg'></div></div>More than 12,000 years ago, when the sea level was six metres higher than at present, 'The Prom' was a group of islands with only the mountain tips showing above water level. When the sea level dropped, (to form the land bridge to Tasmania), a series of sand dunes formed over a basalt base creating the Yanakie Isthmus, and so constructing a link between of the previous islands and the mainland. When the sea level rose again to its present level, the Yanakie Isthmus & Peninsula formed what is now the present day Wilsons Promontory. Since the time of European discovery, exploitation has vastly changed some of the land and the surrounding sea. One record of the extent of this is the impact on seal numbers - in 1804 the American ship 'Union' obtained 600,000 seal skins - today we have nowhere near this number in the whole of the southern Australian waters. When this industry collapsed they turned their attention towards harvesting the oil of mutton birds (short-tailed Shearwaters), and whaling. (Local timber was used for fuel to boil down the blubber) A mill was set up in Sealers Cove in 1849, but lasted only until 1858, when presumably all the accessible tall timber had been removed (a revival of the timber milling occurred again between 1903 to 1906, with a small town comprising 16 buildings, a boarding house and a community hall existed). Pastoral leases were granted from approximately 1851 onward in Sealers Cove and the Yanakie Isthmus/Peninsula, with varied successes. The Yanakie Run was a very profitable business, grazing from Darby River back to west of Paterson Road.<div class='bbimg'><div class='bbimg'></div></div>If you like to join us on the day please reply to this thread and I will put your name down on the list. Hope to see you all there!Rob...Once again Rob has put together another great cruise and the weather was spot on today.I'm sure when everyone gets back they'll have plenty to talk about. So if you have any pics, a funny story or just want to talk about the days events this is the thread to do it.Well done Rob, keep up the good work!Cheers,Adam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G6ET8U Playing with Sports Bikes... Silver Donating Members 1,927 Member For: 19y 3m 9d Gender: Male Location: Whistling, GTX. Posted 05/02/06 07:37 AM Share Posted 05/02/06 07:37 AM Just got home...Left a little earlier than everyone else... a beer was calling!! Had a great day! Beautiful place the 'prom, excellent scenery... pity no camera for me as it went to Northern Ireland yesterday evening with my old man as he's going on holiday's, a real shame too as the view and everything was wicked!!The beach cricket was heaps of fun!! Enjoyed putting faces and personality's to forum members I'm a bit sunburnt but it was well worth it!!!Cheers guys, very well done!Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilDaifu Cruise Whore Moderating Team 5,130 Member For: 19y 6m 2d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 05/02/06 01:35 PM Share Posted 05/02/06 01:35 PM Rob,Thanks for the invite and well done. I had a good time and felt welcome on my first cruise. It was kinda special driving in a line of Fords and seeing people watch us as we drove by. At Norman Beach, I reckon that was the best time I've ever had lying on a rock like a lizard! When I checked the time again, I think I must have fallen asleep in the afternoon sun (with sunblock on of course) as almost an hour had passed.And the water was pristine. Cold at first but wonderful after you'd been in a bit.The evening was great for a BBQ there but I understand people had to get ready for work Monday.All the best.Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilDaifu Cruise Whore Moderating Team 5,130 Member For: 19y 6m 2d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 05/02/06 02:14 PM Share Posted 05/02/06 02:14 PM Well here are my happy snaps. Hope you enjoy them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilDaifu Cruise Whore Moderating Team 5,130 Member For: 19y 6m 2d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 05/02/06 02:20 PM Share Posted 05/02/06 02:20 PM Well here are my happy snaps. Hope you enjoy them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilDaifu Cruise Whore Moderating Team 5,130 Member For: 19y 6m 2d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 05/02/06 02:28 PM Share Posted 05/02/06 02:28 PM Sorry about the haphazard way of loading the pics. Got interrupted and not sure what happened with the upload. Some more pics!By the way, I made the pics smaller for the forum website, but if anyone wants any of the full size ones (which are about 1MB each), just PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Turbo Next stage, to the Pub in 10 seconds Member 2,777 Member For: 20y 5m 25d Gender: Male Location: Berwick Victoria Posted 06/02/06 01:36 AM Share Posted 06/02/06 01:36 AM Hi guys,Thanks to all the members that went yesterday. What a fantastic time we had, a great cruise with a great bunch of people! Thanks Adam (Adamxr6t) for starting this thread and hope to get some more pics posted up soon. Great to meet you Jack and Gary both in there T's. The beach cricket was a good way to get new members mixed in with the rest and the result at the end of the day everyone felt welcome. Thanks Gary for the great photo's mate, hope your not to sunburnt but hey, each and everyone of us came home a little red Hope next time to get more of you guys along to the next cruise, if not your missing out on a great time!Cheers,Rob... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilDaifu Cruise Whore Moderating Team 5,130 Member For: 19y 6m 2d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 06/02/06 10:06 AM Share Posted 06/02/06 10:06 AM On more for the road (from my VGA Nokia - sorry for the resolution)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilDaifu Cruise Whore Moderating Team 5,130 Member For: 19y 6m 2d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 07/02/06 12:01 PM Share Posted 07/02/06 12:01 PM By the way guys, I got waved over at Meeniyan on the way home by the police and breathalysed. He then asked me for my licence, took it to his police car and checked it against something (not sure if the Vic Police have mobile computers like they do in QLD to check people of interest). Then still holding onto my licence, came back to my car and checked my side windscreen registration sticker then went back to his car and did some more checking against something (it was dusk and I could not see what he was doing exactly). He then came back to me and gave me back my licence. So I asked him if there was a problem and he said "No problem". Then I drove off. I don't know if this is normal for country police to take so much interest in passing traffic? When I drove off, he had waved another car in to be checked and in my rear view mirror, I saw that the driver was getting out of his car. That's it folks, thought I would relate it because in the city, I've never had this much interest shown to me whilst being breathalysed (thank goodness ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Turbo Next stage, to the Pub in 10 seconds Member 2,777 Member For: 20y 5m 25d Gender: Male Location: Berwick Victoria Posted 08/02/06 12:55 AM Share Posted 08/02/06 12:55 AM By the way guys, I got waved over at Meeniyan on the way home by the police and breathalysed. He then asked me for my licence, took it to his police car and checked it against something (not sure if the Vic Police have mobile computers like they do in QLD to check people of interest). Then still holding onto my licence, came back to my car and checked my side windscreen registration sticker then went back to his car and did some more checking against something (it was dusk and I could not see what he was doing exactly). He then came back to me and gave me back my licence. So I asked him if there was a problem and he said "No problem". Then I drove off. I don't know if this is normal for country police to take so much interest in passing traffic? When I drove off, he had waved another car in to be checked and in my rear view mirror, I saw that the driver was getting out of his car. That's it folks, thought I would relate it because in the city, I've never had this much interest shown to me whilst being breathalysed (thank goodness ).Yeah all the Vic Police cars have the new computer terminals to make reg checks alot faster than getting the details over the radio. Did he ask or check if you had done any mods? The only police I saw on the way back was one on a bike coming from the other way, when he went past he turned his head around to have another look...I was holding my breath, he kept on going Rob... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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