Wednesday April 2, 2014
A lovely ride today to Lakes Entrance. We had to take the A1 (Princes Highway) all the way, it was a little busy but for the most part we had a good shoulder to ride on. I have decided we need hills to really enjoy the rides.
We left Bairnsdale at 9:40 am and arrived in Lakes Entrance at 11:30, where we met up with our warm showers host (Sally). We had a coffee and then did a bit of shopping. After the shopping Sally loaded our bikes on to her boat and we came across the lake to her wonderful house.
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The house is designed to be similar in style to Thai houses – a main living area, then bedrooms along walkways and another walkway to the shower and toilet areas.
![\"Walkway](\"http://winter-rides.ca/SweetCheeks/wp-content/uploads/Walkway-to-House.jpg\")
Sally is completely self-sufficient, the house has solar panels, rainwater tanks, grey water tanks, and a composting toilet. She may decide to add a couple of extra solar panels so that she can change her gas fridge to an electric one as the gas fridge is expensive to run. Again our warm showers host provided us with a lovely evening meal.
Ralf and I love to meet these different people, Sally has given us some great advice on being off-grid. May be we will buy a piece of land when we get back to Canada and live off-grid, I think that would be awesome.
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After dinner Sally took Ralf along the beach for a walk, I updated part of the blog and missed out on seeing a mob of kangaroos.
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![\"Beach](\"http://winter-rides.ca/SweetCheeks/wp-content/uploads/Beach-at-Lakes-Entrance.jpg\")
Hi Jacky and Ralf,
we hope you will receive this message.
We enjoy all the photos, they are very nice
and clear.
With love Margaret and Dad.
Hi Dad and Margaret
Glad you are enjoying the blog and the photos.
Regarding Sally’s home: do the temperatures stay relatively warm there most of the year? Don’t think I would enjoy walking to the water closet in the winter. Had to do that when I was a child growing up on a dairy farm, back in the 1940’s. I was able to visit a few friends when stationed in Thailand and really enjoyed them.
Dick
The temperatures in Lakes Entrance are very good all year round. Although it can get a bit rainy at this time of year. We did have some rain and walking to the loo in the rain was a bit miserable I must admit.