Day 12 Thursday 26/12/2024, Buronga to Wedderburn, 38◦ It’s going to be a hot one today so we’re up and off at 7:30, our Pilbara neighbours having beaten us, leaving at 5:00 for Brisbane. Oh, the spirit of the young, … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – Nancy’s Cottage
Day 11 Wednesday 25/12/2024 Buronga, 15 – 37 Xmas weather! It’s a peaceful and quiet morning as two thirds of the park leave for functions elsewhere. The rest of us soak up the atmosphere and location and the warmth of … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – An Aussie Christmas
Day 10 Tuesday 24/12/2024 Buronga, Perfect 11 – 29 A very still morning and rowers are out on the river. We drive out to the Coomealla Club to meet Woody’s 2nd cousins for lunch. They’re the boys who grew up … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – Who’s your granny?
Day 9 Monday 23/12/2024 Buronga, cool windy 10 – 25 We’re woken at 6:00am by the paddle steamer PS Melbourne coming into port. She’s still wood fired thus a true steamer I’m told. She gives a healthy toot anyway. Once … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – What you can build with water
Day 8 Sunday 22/12/2024 Buronga, warm windy We have a quiet morning watching the PS Rothbury paddling back and forth with tourists. After lunch we take a drive out to Trentham Estate at Trentham Cliffs to pick up our online … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – Of Wine & Water
Day 7 Saturday 21/12/2024 Buronga, 15 – 31 smoky What’s that orange cast to the light? Smoke? Oh, here we go again, another burning summer. There are 3 fires out of control in Victoria and a gentle southerly is bringing … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – A Short Search
Day 6 Friday 20/12/2024 Euston – Buronga (Mildura) 29 (@ 9:00) – 38◦ It’s a warm clear cloudless morning as we head off towards Mildura on the Sturt Highway, which is on the NSW side of the river. The first … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – It just needs to float
Day 5 Thursday 19/12/2024 Euston, 15 – 34◦ Oh heaven, I was woken at 8:30 by a fly walking over my face. How good is it to have a sleep in? The joy of having a day off from driving … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – I’m Dreaming of a …Bush Xmas
Day 4 Wednesday 18/12/2024 Tooleybuc to Euston 30◦ I’m always amused at the names of the places around us and today it’s Wee Wee Rup, Goodnight and Bumbang Island. By the time we turned out the lights last night there … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – Euston, we haven’t a problem
Day 3 Tuesday 17/12/2024 Cohuna – Tooleybuc 23 – 30 Phew, that was a hot one! But we did manage to sleep well after 11:00pm. It isn’t much of a park being more of a fisherman’s camp with a lot … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – Hooley Dooley it’s Tooley
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