Euroa, Vic, Oct 2024

Day 2 Sunday 6/10/2024 Yarck to Euroa, 15 – 18

We have a slow start because the caravan park check in is not until 1.00pm and we’ve clocked over to Daylight Savings time too. The rain has all passed through and now it’s a bright sunny morning.

Elle hasn’t seen what there is of the town of Yarck, so we stroll up to Buck’s Bakery for our morning coffee. Town consists of a row of miner’s style weatherboard cottages and a Mechanics Institute Hall that was built in 1888. The coffee is good and roasted on site, ‘The Boy and the Buck’ specialty coffee.

We take the Merton Euroa Road to cross the Strathbogie Range. It is an interesting drive and becomes even more interesting when an Angus heifer bolts out of the bush and comes to a sudden halt, it’s nose a mere centimetre from our righthand headlight. I really don’t know how Woody manages to pull us up safely, but he does. In confusion the cow zig zags back and forth up the road blocking our path. In the meantime, Elle is up ahead and on the CB calling “Watch out ‘roos on the road!”. Looks like it’s one of those mornings.

Free of the cow we wind through the hills and mossy gullies before descending to more farmland, though this time the paddocks are strewn with granite sentinels. Boulders that are bigger than houses and stacked in wondrous formations.

We’re surprised to find the town of Euroa heaving with cars and people for the National Show ‘n’ Shine car show and even more shocked to realise that some models that we’ve once owned are now considered ‘Classic and Historical”. What does that make us? Yeah, OK, bloody old. Cars aside, we stroll around town before we set ourselves up in the Euroa Caravan Park with views of Seven Creeks. With a name like that we’re not sure whether we’re looking at a creek or a river.

The rest of the crew arrive, and the remainder of the day is spent catching up in the sun. Toothless organises a fire pit and we eat dinner on our laps (chicken skewers). There’s a Roadstar caravan club muster parked all around us and members are having themselves an end of muster pyjama party. What a sight it is, Nannas in Pyjamas ducking about the caravans, if their kids could see them now. Thank God they’re wearing supportive underwear.

Accom: $49.50, Towing Kms: 49Kms