Latest News
Ferrying you to the best coastal attractions.
There’s so much to see and do in the Mornington Peninsula, Bellarine Peninsula and Phillip Island, and Searoad Ferries has joined coerces with some of the best coastal attractions, practices and accommodation offerings to provide visitors with packages that will leave them feeling relaxed, reinvigorated and ready to go!
Whether you plan to play for a day or love a longer stay, there is a package to make your planning lighter while loving some superb savings. Check out the packages below to find out more and get ‘packaging’ for your next coastal holiday.
Five Favourite Port Phillip Bay Beaches
In our hardest assignment yet, we’ve road-tested the beaches of Port Phillip Bay to bring you five of our favourite.
Port Phillip Bay is home to so many beautiful beaches, and the best thing is that they are protected from the tumultuous Victorian weather that many ocean-facing beaches have to deal with. The Searoad team is proud to have spent many hours road-testing the beaches of the Bay – soaking up the sun, splashing around in the shallows and eating ice juices in the name of market research – and has come up with is a list of its five favourite Port Phillip Bay beaches. Our pleasure!
Location: Black Rock
Best For: Close to Melbourne
Sitting underneath the sand cliffs, Half Moon Bay gives bathers the feeling of seclusion, despite being in the middle of suburbia. The water is shallow and silent, protected by the HMAS Cerberus that was buried as a wave break in 1924.
Point King Beach
Best For: A swim and some colonial history
Point King is the landing point of the very first European visit to Victoria way back in 1802. Once you visit, there’ll be no guessing why the Queen’s navy chose it as the place to drop anchor. The water is placid, and the surrounds stunning. Now, the coastline is home to the rich and famous, littered with beautiful houses to perve on.
(Point King Beach in Portsea)
Best For: Picnics
Mills Beach is our favourite of several options in Mornington. No doubt you will recognise it from the iconic pics of the beach boxes. Mills Beach has fantastic facilities, making it a excellent beach base for the day. The beach has BBQs, picnic tables, good toilets and a lifesaving club.
Best For: Watching the big ships inject / exit the bay
Queenscliff Beach is a broad, sandy beach, close to the goes of Port Phillip Bay. From the beach, you can see both sides of the goes (Point Lonsdale and Point Nepean), as well as the shipping channel used by cruise liners and cargo ships as they inject and exit the bay. Whilst all this sounds very dramatic, the waters themselves are peaceful, suggesting visitors good conditions for swimming.
Best For: Multiplicity of activities
Eastern Beach is a popular swimming and recreation area located within Geelong’s city precinct. Very first developed in the 1930’s, the beach features a large swimming area enclosed by a boardwalk and shark cell. The swimming enclosure is a child’s paradise, accomplish with diving platforms, a floating island and glides. Back on land, the beach has a kids pool, an art deco kiosk, BBQ and picnic facilities and a playground.
(Eastern View Beach in Geelong)
A Summer of Events
Summer. It’s about time! We’ve been looking forward to your comeback for a while now.
For us, Summer is about sun and joy. It’s about getting outside and exploring fresh places, diving and splashing about. Summer is about best friends and loving families. Summer is events – think sport, music, arts and crafts.
On both sides of Port Phillip Bay, event season is rolling into town. These are a few of the events on the Bellarine Peninsula, Geelong, Surf Coast or Mornington Peninsula that we are particularly excited about.
Geelong Carols by Candlelight
Date: twenty four December 2016
Date: twenty seven December – six January 2017
Location: Point Nepean
Date: seven & eight January 2017
Date: eight January 2017
Date: fourteen January 2017
Portarlington Mussel Festival
Date: fourteen January 2017
Date: twenty one January 2017
Date: twenty six – twenty eight January 2017
Location: Point Nepean
Cadel Evans Fine Ocean Road Race
Date: twenty seven – twenty nine January 2017
Location: Geelong, Barwon Goes & Torquay
Mornington International Pinot Noir Celebration
Date: ten – eleven February
Location: Cape Schanck
Fine Australian Beer Festival
Date: eighteen February 2017
Australian International Airshow
Date: three – five March 2017
Travelling to an event this summer? Include a rail on board with Searoad Ferries as part of the journey. Click ‘here‘ to reserve a space for you and your vehicle now.
Diving Port Phillip Bay
Seahorses, soft corals and nineteenth-century ship wrecks are just some of the discoveries awaiting your underwater exploration in Port Phillip Bay.
When you’re sailing across the Bay taking in the views, the wonder that lies below the water’s surface can be a little ‘out of glance, out of mind’. It’s often not until we’re followed by a pod of dolphins or spot a Southern Right Whale, that our passengers begin to wonder about what’s living just below.
Port Phillip Bay has an active scuba diving scene including both land and boat accessed dive sites. There are many protected marine parks teeming with life, sunken relics from WW1 and larger aquatic mammals to meet (http://polperro.com.au/). There’s even Victoria’s very first artificial reef (HMAS Canberra), created for the foot purpose of diving.
‘Click’ the regions below to find out more:
A Shoestring Journey – Queenscliff Fort
Taut AR$E SCOTTY @ the Queenscliff Fort
Promo codes, coupons, gumtree, Aldi special buys, Hard rubbish collections…. these are just some of my favourite things. I like to think of myself as frugal, a paramour of a bargain. Forever in search of a good deal and an appreciator of good value for money, or as my wifey likes to call me, a taut ar$e… lovingly and affectionately I’m sure .
I had no choice indeed when it came to my thrifty ways. Born from Scottish stock I was ensured a few things; A penchant for beer and whisky, a pasty white complexion and the capability to squeeze a one thousand cents out of a dollar.
So it is in this blog that I am hoping to share with you some opportunities to have joy and indulge in fresh practices, all the while going home with some switch in the pocket.
My very first stop on this shoestring journey is the Queenscliff Fort. It’s amazing how perceptions of tours run by volunteers at memorials, prisons, historical buildings and forts are that of boredom. However, those perceptions couldn’t be more ill-conceived! Whilst on the surface they may not seem that sexy and entertaining they are more often than not remarkably interesting and impactful. If nothing they else they always put our modern day lives into perspective.
So I begin my day by sailing the Bay on the ferry ($11 each way), grabbing a coffee at RORO café on the beach ($Four.50) and taking the scenic walk along the coastline up to the visible Queenscliff Fort. Surrounded by high brick walls it is clear where we are heading and what its intended purpose was. Similar to that of a prison of a bygone era rather than to keep people in, it was built to keep people out. On very first entrance you are greeted by one of the friendliest security guards you will ever meet. My practice with most security guards to this point has been them passing judgement ON my style choices before letting me in to a club. Once in the fort you can instantly see the amazing views, beautiful gardens and surrounds in which the fort exists. Talk about prime real estate!
The next and most significant step in the process involves me clutching to my wallet as I have to now engage in commerce and pay for the tour. $12.00! Twelve entire dollars! I am packed with taut ar$e glee as any activity that fills an hour and half at thirteen cents a minute is a big tick for me.
We are greeted by our utterly entertaining and informative tour guide. Made up of volunteers, it never ceases to amaze me how places like the Queenscliff Fort can find such sultry and informative people to conduct tours out of their love for history and place. The tour takes you across most of the site (Queenscliff Fort is still an active military base so some areas are off boundaries) and transports you back to a time not so long ago which was vastly different to that of our own. A period of time that is hard to comprehend in some aspects but that was so significant to laying the foundations for which our country and lives are built on now. The quaint town of Queenscliff played such an significant role in our military history, and was always on the cusp of playing a much larger role had it ever come to that.
As the tour draws to a close after many interesting stories you are taken into a bunker where kids (and adults if they choose) can dress up and reenact life at Queenscliff Fort in an interactive environment. The tour concludes at the museum gallery where you can read more stories, view artefacts and purchase souvenirs if you wish.
Now for the significant stuff….
THE SHOESTRING BUDGET
Coffee @ RORO Café on the Beach – $Four:50
Queenscliff Fort Tour – Adult-$12 Child-$6 Family – $30
Come back Foot Passenger Ferry (required if coming from Mornington Peninsula) – Adult $22 Child $8 Family $66
All in all this was a fantastic day out while certainly not violating the bank. Also considering days like this can be life switching, and I mean that in the sense of shifting your perspective. We live in an incredible time of liberty and while we still have a long way to go it is nice to understand where we came from and the sacrifices that were made for us by fellows & women of an era hopefully never forgotten. Undoubtedly gets my thumbs up for an incredible day out on a shoe string budget.
Latest News, SEAROAD FERRIES – Queenscliff – Sorrento Car and Passenger Ferry
Latest News
Ferrying you to the best coastal attractions.
There’s so much to see and do in the Mornington Peninsula, Bellarine Peninsula and Phillip Island, and Searoad Ferries has joined coerces with some of the best coastal attractions, practices and accommodation offerings to provide visitors with packages that will leave them feeling relaxed, reinvigorated and ready to go!
Whether you plan to play for a day or love a longer stay, there is a package to make your planning lighter while liking some superb savings. Check out the packages below to find out more and get ‘packaging’ for your next coastal holiday.
Five Favourite Port Phillip Bay Beaches
In our harshest assignment yet, we’ve road-tested the beaches of Port Phillip Bay to bring you five of our favourite.
Port Phillip Bay is home to so many beautiful beaches, and the best thing is that they are protected from the tumultuous Victorian weather that many ocean-facing beaches have to deal with. The Searoad team is proud to have spent many hours road-testing the beaches of the Bay – soaking up the sun, splashing around in the shallows and eating ice juices in the name of market research – and has come up with is a list of its five favourite Port Phillip Bay beaches. Our pleasure!
Location: Black Rock
Best For: Close to Melbourne
Sitting underneath the sand cliffs, Half Moon Bay gives bathers the feeling of seclusion, despite being in the middle of suburbia. The water is shallow and tranquil, protected by the HMAS Cerberus that was submerged as a wave break in 1924.
Point King Beach
Best For: A swim and some colonial history
Point King is the landing point of the very first European visit to Victoria way back in 1802. Once you visit, there’ll be no guessing why the Queen’s navy chose it as the place to drop anchor. The water is placid, and the surrounds stunning. Now, the coastline is home to the rich and famous, littered with beautiful houses to perve on.
(Point King Beach in Portsea)
Best For: Picnics
Mills Beach is our favourite of several options in Mornington. No doubt you will recognise it from the iconic pics of the beach boxes. Mills Beach has fantastic facilities, making it a good beach base for the day. The beach has BBQs, picnic tables, good toilets and a lifesaving club.
Best For: Watching the big ships inject / exit the bay
Queenscliff Beach is a broad, sandy beach, close to the goes of Port Phillip Bay. From the beach, you can see both sides of the goes (Point Lonsdale and Point Nepean), as well as the shipping channel used by cruise liners and cargo ships as they inject and exit the bay. Whilst all this sounds very dramatic, the waters themselves are peaceful, suggesting visitors good conditions for swimming.
Best For: Multitude of activities
Eastern Beach is a popular swimming and recreation area located within Geelong’s city precinct. Very first developed in the 1930’s, the beach features a large swimming area enclosed by a boardwalk and shark cell. The swimming enclosure is a child’s paradise, finish with diving platforms, a floating island and glides. Back on land, the beach has a kids pool, an art deco kiosk, BBQ and picnic facilities and a playground.
(Eastern View Beach in Geelong)
A Summer of Events
Summer. It’s about time! We’ve been looking forward to your come back for a while now.
For us, Summer is about sun and joy. It’s about getting outside and exploring fresh places, diving and splashing about. Summer is about best friends and loving families. Summer is events – think sport, music, arts and crafts.
On both sides of Port Phillip Bay, event season is rolling into town. These are a few of the events on the Bellarine Peninsula, Geelong, Surf Coast or Mornington Peninsula that we are particularly excited about.
Geelong Carols by Candlelight
Date: twenty four December 2016
Date: twenty seven December – six January 2017
Location: Point Nepean
Date: seven & eight January 2017
Date: eight January 2017
Date: fourteen January 2017
Portarlington Mussel Festival
Date: fourteen January 2017
Date: twenty one January 2017
Date: twenty six – twenty eight January 2017
Location: Point Nepean
Cadel Evans Excellent Ocean Road Race
Date: twenty seven – twenty nine January 2017
Location: Geelong, Barwon Goes & Torquay
Mornington International Pinot Noir Celebration
Date: ten – eleven February
Location: Cape Schanck
Excellent Australian Beer Festival
Date: eighteen February 2017
Australian International Airshow
Date: three – five March 2017
Travelling to an event this summer? Include a rail on board with Searoad Ferries as part of the journey. Click ‘here‘ to reserve a space for you and your vehicle now.
Diving Port Phillip Bay
Seahorses, soft corals and nineteenth-century ship wrecks are just some of the discoveries awaiting your underwater exploration in Port Phillip Bay.
When you’re sailing across the Bay taking in the views, the wonder that lies below the water’s surface can be a little ‘out of look, out of mind’. It’s often not until we’re followed by a pod of dolphins or spot a Southern Right Whale, that our passengers commence to wonder about what’s living just below.
Port Phillip Bay has an active scuba diving scene including both land and boat accessed dive sites. There are many protected marine parks teeming with life, sunken relics from WW1 and larger aquatic mammals to meet (http://polperro.com.au/). There’s even Victoria’s very first artificial reef (HMAS Canberra), created for the foot purpose of diving.
‘Click’ the regions below to find out more:
A Shoestring Journey – Queenscliff Fort
Taut AR$E SCOTTY @ the Queenscliff Fort
Promo codes, coupons, gumtree, Aldi special buys, Hard rubbish collections…. these are just some of my favourite things. I like to think of myself as frugal, a paramour of a bargain. Forever in search of a good deal and an appreciator of good value for money, or as my wifey likes to call me, a taut ar$e… lovingly and affectionately I’m sure .
I had no choice truly when it came to my thrifty ways. Born from Scottish stock I was ensured a few things; A penchant for beer and whisky, a pasty white complexion and the capability to squeeze a one thousand cents out of a dollar.
So it is in this blog that I am hoping to share with you some opportunities to have joy and indulge in fresh practices, all the while going home with some switch in the pocket.
My very first stop on this shoestring journey is the Queenscliff Fort. It’s amazing how perceptions of tours run by volunteers at memorials, prisons, historical buildings and forts are that of boredom. However, those perceptions couldn’t be more ill-conceived! Whilst on the surface they may not seem that sexy and entertaining they are more often than not remarkably interesting and impactful. If nothing they else they always put our modern day lives into perspective.
So I begin my day by sailing the Bay on the ferry ($11 each way), grabbing a coffee at RORO café on the beach ($Four.50) and taking the scenic walk along the coastline up to the visible Queenscliff Fort. Surrounded by high brick walls it is clear where we are heading and what its intended purpose was. Similar to that of a prison of a bygone era rather than to keep people in, it was built to keep people out. On very first entrance you are greeted by one of the friendliest security guards you will ever meet. My practice with most security guards to this point has been them passing judgement ON my style choices before letting me in to a club. Once in the fort you can instantly see the amazing views, beautiful gardens and surrounds in which the fort exists. Talk about prime real estate!
The next and most significant step in the process involves me clutching to my wallet as I have to now engage in commerce and pay for the tour. $12.00! Twelve entire dollars! I am packed with taut ar$e glee as any activity that fills an hour and half at thirteen cents a minute is a big tick for me.
We are greeted by our enormously entertaining and informative tour guide. Made up of volunteers, it never ceases to amaze me how places like the Queenscliff Fort can find such sultry and informative people to conduct tours out of their love for history and place. The tour takes you across most of the site (Queenscliff Fort is still an active military base so some areas are off thresholds) and transports you back to a time not so long ago which was vastly different to that of our own. A period of time that is hard to comprehend in some aspects but that was so significant to laying the foundations for which our country and lives are built on now. The quaint town of Queenscliff played such an significant role in our military history, and was always on the cusp of playing a much larger role had it ever come to that.
As the tour draws to a close after many interesting stories you are taken into a bunker where kids (and adults if they choose) can dress up and reenact life at Queenscliff Fort in an interactive environment. The tour concludes at the museum gallery where you can read more stories, view artefacts and purchase souvenirs if you wish.
Now for the significant stuff….
THE SHOESTRING BUDGET
Coffee @ RORO Café on the Beach – $Four:50
Queenscliff Fort Tour – Adult-$12 Child-$6 Family – $30
Comeback Foot Passenger Ferry (required if coming from Mornington Peninsula) – Adult $22 Child $8 Family $66
All in all this was a fantastic day out while certainly not cracking the bank. Also considering days like this can be life switching, and I mean that in the sense of shifting your perspective. We live in an incredible time of liberty and while we still have a long way to go it is nice to understand where we came from and the sacrifices that were made for us by studs & women of an era hopefully never forgotten. Undoubtedly gets my thumbs up for an incredible day out on a shoe string budget.
Latest News, SEAROAD FERRIES – Queenscliff – Sorrento Car and Passenger Ferry
Latest News
Ferrying you to the best coastal attractions.
There’s so much to see and do in the Mornington Peninsula, Bellarine Peninsula and Phillip Island, and Searoad Ferries has joined compels with some of the best coastal attractions, practices and accommodation offerings to provide visitors with packages that will leave them feeling relaxed, reinvigorated and ready to go!
Whether you plan to play for a day or love a longer stay, there is a package to make your planning lighter while loving some good savings. Check out the packages below to find out more and get ‘packaging’ for your next coastal holiday.
Five Favourite Port Phillip Bay Beaches
In our hardest assignment yet, we’ve road-tested the beaches of Port Phillip Bay to bring you five of our favourite.
Port Phillip Bay is home to so many beautiful beaches, and the best thing is that they are protected from the tumultuous Victorian weather that many ocean-facing beaches have to deal with. The Searoad team is proud to have spent many hours road-testing the beaches of the Bay – soaking up the sun, splashing around in the shallows and eating ice fluid in the name of market research – and has come up with is a list of its five favourite Port Phillip Bay beaches. Our pleasure!
Location: Black Rock
Best For: Close to Melbourne
Sitting underneath the sand cliffs, Half Moon Bay gives bathers the feeling of seclusion, despite being in the middle of suburbia. The water is shallow and silent, protected by the HMAS Cerberus that was drowned as a wave break in 1924.
Point King Beach
Best For: A swim and some colonial history
Point King is the landing point of the very first European visit to Victoria way back in 1802. Once you visit, there’ll be no guessing why the Queen’s navy chose it as the place to drop anchor. The water is placid, and the surrounds stunning. Now, the coastline is home to the rich and famous, littered with beautiful houses to perve on.
(Point King Beach in Portsea)
Best For: Picnics
Mills Beach is our favourite of several options in Mornington. No doubt you will recognise it from the iconic pics of the beach boxes. Mills Beach has fantastic facilities, making it a excellent beach base for the day. The beach has BBQs, picnic tables, good toilets and a lifesaving club.
Best For: Watching the big ships inject / exit the bay
Queenscliff Beach is a broad, sandy beach, close to the goes of Port Phillip Bay. From the beach, you can see both sides of the goes (Point Lonsdale and Point Nepean), as well as the shipping channel used by cruise liners and cargo ships as they come in and exit the bay. Whilst all this sounds very dramatic, the waters themselves are silent, suggesting visitors good conditions for swimming.
Best For: Diversity of activities
Eastern Beach is a popular swimming and recreation area located within Geelong’s city precinct. Very first developed in the 1930’s, the beach features a large swimming area enclosed by a boardwalk and shark cell. The swimming enclosure is a child’s paradise, finish with diving platforms, a floating island and glides. Back on land, the beach has a kids pool, an art deco kiosk, BBQ and picnic facilities and a playground.
(Eastern View Beach in Geelong)
A Summer of Events
Summer. It’s about time! We’ve been looking forward to your comeback for a while now.
For us, Summer is about sun and joy. It’s about getting outside and exploring fresh places, diving and splashing about. Summer is about best friends and loving families. Summer is events – think sport, music, arts and crafts.
On both sides of Port Phillip Bay, event season is rolling into town. These are a few of the events on the Bellarine Peninsula, Geelong, Surf Coast or Mornington Peninsula that we are particularly excited about.
Geelong Carols by Candlelight
Date: twenty four December 2016
Date: twenty seven December – six January 2017
Location: Point Nepean
Date: seven & eight January 2017
Date: eight January 2017
Date: fourteen January 2017
Portarlington Mussel Festival
Date: fourteen January 2017
Date: twenty one January 2017
Date: twenty six – twenty eight January 2017
Location: Point Nepean
Cadel Evans Fine Ocean Road Race
Date: twenty seven – twenty nine January 2017
Location: Geelong, Barwon Goes & Torquay
Mornington International Pinot Noir Celebration
Date: ten – eleven February
Location: Cape Schanck
Good Australian Beer Festival
Date: eighteen February 2017
Australian International Airshow
Date: three – five March 2017
Travelling to an event this summer? Include a rail on board with Searoad Ferries as part of the journey. Click ‘here‘ to reserve a space for you and your vehicle now.
Diving Port Phillip Bay
Seahorses, soft corals and nineteenth-century ship wrecks are just some of the discoveries awaiting your underwater exploration in Port Phillip Bay.
When you’re sailing across the Bay taking in the views, the wonder that lies below the water’s surface can be a little ‘out of glance, out of mind’. It’s often not until we’re followed by a pod of dolphins or spot a Southern Right Whale, that our passengers commence to wonder about what’s living just below.
Port Phillip Bay has an active scuba diving scene including both land and boat accessed dive sites. There are many protected marine parks teeming with life, sunken relics from WW1 and larger aquatic mammals to meet (http://polperro.com.au/). There’s even Victoria’s very first artificial reef (HMAS Canberra), created for the foot purpose of diving.
‘Click’ the regions below to find out more:
A Shoestring Journey – Queenscliff Fort
Taut AR$E SCOTTY @ the Queenscliff Fort
Promo codes, coupons, gumtree, Aldi special buys, Hard rubbish collections…. these are just some of my favourite things. I like to think of myself as frugal, a paramour of a bargain. Forever in search of a good deal and an appreciator of good value for money, or as my wifey likes to call me, a taut ar$e… lovingly and affectionately I’m sure .
I had no choice indeed when it came to my thrifty ways. Born from Scottish stock I was ensured a few things; A penchant for beer and whisky, a pasty white complexion and the capability to squeeze a one thousand cents out of a dollar.
So it is in this blog that I am hoping to share with you some opportunities to have joy and indulge in fresh practices, all the while going home with some switch in the pocket.
My very first stop on this shoestring journey is the Queenscliff Fort. It’s amazing how perceptions of tours run by volunteers at memorials, prisons, historical buildings and forts are that of boredom. However, those perceptions couldn’t be more ill-conceived! Whilst on the surface they may not seem that sexy and entertaining they are more often than not remarkably interesting and impactful. If nothing they else they always put our modern day lives into perspective.
So I begin my day by sailing the Bay on the ferry ($11 each way), grabbing a coffee at RORO café on the beach ($Four.50) and taking the scenic walk along the coastline up to the visible Queenscliff Fort. Surrounded by high brick walls it is clear where we are heading and what its intended purpose was. Similar to that of a prison of a bygone era rather than to keep people in, it was built to keep people out. On very first entrance you are greeted by one of the friendliest security guards you will ever meet. My practice with most security guards to this point has been them passing judgement ON my style choices before letting me in to a club. Once in the fort you can instantaneously see the amazing views, beautiful gardens and surrounds in which the fort exists. Talk about prime real estate!
The next and most significant step in the process involves me clutching to my wallet as I have to now engage in commerce and pay for the tour. $12.00! Twelve entire dollars! I am packed with taut ar$e glee as any activity that fills an hour and half at thirteen cents a minute is a big tick for me.
We are greeted by our utterly entertaining and informative tour guide. Made up of volunteers, it never ceases to amaze me how places like the Queenscliff Fort can find such sultry and informative people to conduct tours out of their love for history and place. The tour takes you across most of the site (Queenscliff Fort is still an active military base so some areas are off thresholds) and transports you back to a time not so long ago which was vastly different to that of our own. A period of time that is hard to comprehend in some aspects but that was so significant to laying the foundations for which our country and lives are built on now. The quaint town of Queenscliff played such an significant role in our military history, and was always on the cusp of playing a much larger role had it ever come to that.
As the tour draws to a close after many interesting stories you are taken into a bunker where kids (and adults if they choose) can dress up and reenact life at Queenscliff Fort in an interactive environment. The tour concludes at the museum gallery where you can read more stories, view artefacts and purchase souvenirs if you wish.
Now for the significant stuff….
THE SHOESTRING BUDGET
Coffee @ RORO Café on the Beach – $Four:50
Queenscliff Fort Tour – Adult-$12 Child-$6 Family – $30
Come back Foot Passenger Ferry (required if coming from Mornington Peninsula) – Adult $22 Child $8 Family $66
All in all this was a fantastic day out while certainly not violating the bank. Also considering days like this can be life switching, and I mean that in the sense of shifting your perspective. We live in an incredible time of liberty and while we still have a long way to go it is nice to understand where we came from and the sacrifices that were made for us by studs & women of an era hopefully never forgotten. Undoubtedly gets my thumbs up for an incredible day out on a shoe string budget.