A long drive and donuts at Lakes Entrance

Snowy Mountains + Gippsland 2025–26

Lunch stop at Lakes Entrance. Long drive today from Mallacoota, west to Emerald.

Lunch: Mongolian and fried rice, on the waterfront.

Dessert: shared donut from Big Bear Donuts. Again 🍩. Mum's face did not approve 😉.

Charging

There’s a fast charger in a shopping center and another one at the other end of town, but none in the central waterfront. So, we didn’t charge here. We’ll just charge at the next parking opportunity.

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  1. Nearly home. Always enjoy your trips. Very informative
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  2. Have a lovely Christmas 🎄
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    1. Andrea Dacey Thank you. All the best for you and yours 🎄
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  3. Off subject, have you received the Christmas Update yet?
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    1. Kylie Gilroy No, not yet. I keep checking my stocking, but no 😞 🎄

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      1. Tesla Tripping yeah I've heard no HW4 has, at least us povo HW3 have received it lol
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      2. Kylie Gilroy Oh, have you? Nice.

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      3. Tesla Tripping the kids and I have done a few funny photos with the photo booth but that's all I've checked hahaha
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  4. Arriving at the top of the hill at Lakes Entrance just before dawn, and watching the sun rise over that area there is one special treat. Loved it so much that I drove down there again at a later date just to do that again.
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  5. Might be doing this trip in February but haven’t decided yet.

    But currently on a road trip from Sorrento to Adelaide via St Arnaud and Mildura today and staying in Wentworth tomorrow night and then heading to Adelaide on Tuesday morning for a few days over Christmas and then back home via Hamilton next Sunday.

    This is my first trip to Adelaide in my 2023 Model 3 Long Range and I’ve been wanting to do this trip for awhile now as I’ve only done two interstate trips to Wollongong and Canberra so far but never to South Australia until now!

    Charged up before I left home and got about 48% left at the moment so probably charge up again in Mildura I think and then obviously when I get to Adelaide as well.

    Plus I got the Christmas update on Friday afternoon so downloaded it straight away!
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    1. Clint Deverson Happy tripping! We’re still waiting on our Christmas update 😤
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      1. Tesla Tripping what car do you have?

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      2. Clint Deverson 2025 Tesla Model Y Juniper RWD “Launch Edition”. It has HW4, which I’ve been told has not received the Christmas update yet.
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      3. Tesla Tripping that’s my next car as I find the Model 3 cars a bit too low to the ground now and I like the Model Y cars as they are higher up and easier to get into and bigger space to put my walker into the boot but I just got a new one so it fits fine in the boot of my car along with my walking stick but still prefer the Model Y instead as it’s easier for me to get into compared with my car.

        Plus it’s got FSD on it too!!! Which I’m definitely looking forward to getting one day soon but tested it on a Model Y recently and it was amazing but just need another $55k to get the new long range model after trading mine in for about 33k but don’t have that kind of money at the moment either do my parents either but really want to upgrade it to the Model Y Long Range though!
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      4. Clint Deverson We did nearly 100,000km in our Model 3, and only upgraded to Y for the higher entry, for sore hips and less mobile passengers.
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  6. Enjoy your amazing Tesla, and aren’t Big Bear Donuts 🍩 life changing!? 🤣❤️
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