We stayed at Bear Gully Coastal Cottages, which are wonderfully situated on the cliff overlooking Wilson's Promontory, and beautifully landscaped with a mainly native garden to give the feeling of privacy, and yet take advantage of the view.
One of our friends had brought a wildflower book so we wandered around trying to identify the plants and photographing the nicest flowers.
Then we walked down to the foreshore through wonderful ti-tree woods
to the foreshore. The birdlife was fantastic: sea eagles, blue wrens, magpies, kookaburras, crimson rosellas, honeyeaters, and my favourite, beautiful little swallows. ( At night, we were visited outside by sweet little bats swooping after the insects drawn to the lights of the house). We saw no snakes, but did see a wallaby, and this blue tongue lizard sunbaking by the side of the path:
The beach was full of wonderful textures in its rock, sand, shells, plants and water, so we spent a lot of time walking, rock pool exploring, shell seeking and photographing inspirational sights:
On the last day, we went up to the Cape Liptrap lighthouse to admire the incredibly rugged view. No wonder they have had so many ship wrecks along this coast.
Back in Melbourne, we discovered that the spring had sprung too! There were flowers all over the garden, and visiting ravens, honeyeater and lorikeets:
Makes me itch to get out the watercolours. What a pity it was a flying visit.
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