Portland Holiday
We have been very busy tonight organising photos from our time in the Portland Region over the Christmas break.
We headed off on Boxing Day to enjoy time with family and friends for a time of rest and relaxation. After the hectic time of shopping and cooking for Christmas and packing ready for our annual vacation we spent the first couple of days recouperating around the caravan park. After usual shopping for essentials for the week, we decided it was time to check out the surrounding sites.
First port of call was a trip to Bridgewater Bay to check out the Petrified Forest and Blowhole.
It was a warm and very windy day with plenty of flies to annoy us.
This is an awesome place, where the forces of wind and the sea have carved out the area of limestone coast to what it is today.
There is an information board to describe how the petrified forest came into being. Interesting! 
We then moved on to Brigewater Lakes for a picnic lunch. This is a lovely tranquil place with a grassed area with tables and seats. There is also a boat ramp there.
There were other families here with littlies and teenagers water skiing on the lake too. So it is obviously a popular site with the locals.
After eating our lunch we packed up to discover the surrounding areas.
We didn’t need to travel far when we came upon the Tarragal Caves. We enjoyed climbing the steep hill to investigate these mysterious caves and check out Mary’s ‘lady’. (She wasn’t so impressive up close).
This is the site where Evan took the lovely photo looking back over the Bridgewater Lakes area from inside the cave. He so graciously allowed me to copy it to add to the Gallery. Thank you Evan.
We visited Cape Nelson Lighthouse as well. This is such a windy place that they there is a solid concrete wall to shelter you when you walk from the house to the lighthouse. It is a very rugged coastline here and easy to see how the ships of old came to grief along these coasts. You can see why there is a need for a lighthouse in this area.
