Cape Shank

While we were in Melbourne, we drove down the coast to Cape Shank:


We parked up and ate our lunch amongst a plague of flies

Then we went for a strole down to the water




On the way down we saw an echidna




After cape shank we went on to Sorrento, almost near the end of the Peninsula. Mum and Dad used to take us here during summer holidays. We visited an old haunt of ours - "Buckley's Chance" - a pancake parlour in the heart of Sorrento town. The name is described on this site:

[Sorrento] was in 1803 the site of the first white attempt to settle in what is now Victoria; the settlers struggled here for four months before giving up and moving on to what is now Tasmania. One of the convicts in the expedition was the infamous William Buckley, who escaped, was adopted by the local Aborigines and lived with them for 32 years. When the "wild white man" was seen again by settlers he could scarcely remember how to speak English; his survival against all odds has been immortalized in the phrase "Buckley's chance".

After Buckley's Chance we headed for the beach