Our Family Trip to Paynesville

I skipped out of work early last Friday so we could get under way on our weekend away to Paynesville, down on the Gippsland Lakes. We weren't taking our boat so a heap of stress was not going to be involved!! We were going to stay with Claire's auntie and her husband at their waterfront property - which we hadn't been to before. Last time we went down they lived a couple of hundred meters up the road, still waterfront but just a change of scenery. We arrived after dark, in a bit of a fog, so we had no idea what the view from the house was like...

... next morning we awoke to this...a very excited Emily!

...and once I got out on the verandah I could see why she was so excited...

 After breakfast we went for a little walk and met some of the locals...

 

...much to the excitement of the kids!

It was then time to go on a cruise and find a nice relaxing spot for some lunch...so we piled aboard the boat and we were off!

Here is the gang preparing to come up to the fly bridge...

James looking a bit nervous about the whole situation...

Emily looking very pleased with her lifejacket and generally happy with everything... 

Emily looking like an old salt...

On the fly bridge, James looking slightly less nervous...

Emily has found her sea legs...

Just a random bit of idealic loveliness...

Said boat moored up Duck Arm for lunch...

The crew assembled for lunch...

Some more locals...

James wandering back from visiting the locals...

Some of the other locals coming to sample our lunch, it appears they approved...

A little more relaxed, James steering from the fly bridge...

An old salt having a good time in a nice looking little yacht...

A little random cheekiness from Emily...

Going over to Raymond Island on the ferry...

Emily walking along the board walk, stopping to say hello to some birds...

Look Emily, can you see the Koala in the tree...

And of course no trip to the seaside (well close enough) is complete without fish and chips for lunch!!