RV TRAVEL
ACCOMMODATION
The Mornington Peninsula has no shortage of van parks and foreshore camping options. As I mentioned, the Port Phillip end of Sorrento offers an excellent campground on the beach. During my trip, I stayed at a similar campground in nearby Rosebud, the Capel Sound Foreshore Reserve. But if you’ re visiting Sorrento, the town’ s foreshore camping reserve is your best bet. It provides quick and easy access to the beach, all the facilities of town, and it’ ll take you less than five minutes to drive to the Back Beach.
My sleeping quarters: the Avida Explorer LX. With its small bathroom, an elevated bed with storage space below and a decent amount of 12V power, I was very comfortable.
At one stage, the dash told me to fill up the vehicle’ s AdBlue tank. At another, parked up in Rosebud, a shirtless man in his 60s rode past on a pushbike. He was the adventurous type – as I was taking pictures, he was doing wheelies. If I have his energy at his age, I’ ll consider myself lucky. He was just one of many people who stopped to admire the Avida.
Look carefully and you ' ll see the former safe swimming area, with its eroded seawall. In the 80s, this wall created an awesome adventure playground for a child such as myself.
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