Twenty one brave adventurers set off to Phillip Island for the weekend 18 & 19 April 2008.   Cycling, particularly on French Island, was the key activity planned.

The visit to French Island can be truely described as a "Once in a Lifetime" visit.   You must visit once....   Roads that a 4-wheel drive could traverse were described as roads, else they were tracks.   Jimmy "is that a tiger snake" da Greek found it a very 'fast moving' experience.  

We had a great lunch, afternoon tea and commentary provided to us by Lois Airs who has been conducting tours of French Island since 1980; a 4th generation islander and who still lives in their 18th century chicory kiln.

Photos: Lindsay Spittle 

Breakfast on Saturday Morning

 

Getting ready to leave.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French Island.....here we come..........

 

 

 

Lois Airs preparing a welcoming drink 

 

 

 

 

 

And telling us what life is all about 

 

 

 

Lunch was excellent

 

 

 

The ferret was still down the pipe.......(from her demostration of a ferret going down a pipe). 

 

 

 

They grow 'good grass' on French Island 

 

 

 

Afternoon tea with Zoe

  

 

 

Saturday night dinner at the HAPPY HOLIDAY Restaurant 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And not forgetting our fantastic Greek cook, Jimmy