A short drive west, for a stroll around foggy New Norfolk, we stumbled across the most bizarre collection of relics, in what looked like an old hospital site – old vehicles, machinery, rusty fences and stone masonry. Unfortunately it wasn’t open to browse the antiques, maybe next time.

Then headed to the shops, ‘flywheel’ the vintage letterpress, stationery shop was a favourite. Could of spent up big here..

North to Bothwell, takes us through rolling sheep farming hills, the sun is shining and Max quickly spots our first sight of snow – to the west atop Frenchmans Cap.

On leaving Bothwell via the bridge over the Claude River, to our surprise it was frozen! It was so much fun skipping stones, 15-20 bounces to the other side, and the noise was great, reverbing off the underside of the bridge.

Leni found a frozen stream behind us and moved on to throwing sheets of ice to shatter across the river.

Driving north to Breona, we stop off at Steppes Sculptures, with enough snow around for Leni’s first snowball to throw at Max.

A short stroll to the Steppes homestead – stepped with history and more snow!

North along the west side of the Great Lake, we are excited to arrive at ‘Spinners Cottage’ in Breona for the next 2 nights.. to our delight the fire is roaring and a little friend welcomes us outside…

We were all amazed at the lovely cottage, with a fantastic view down to Great Lake. Looking forward to staying here a while.