Yackandandah, Vic Day 8 Saturday 12/10/2024 Yackandandah, sunny 5 – 21 Mother of Pearl and little Pearl leave early for home and the ballet. The spring sunshine is hot on my back, yet my toes are cold. The last drops … Continue reading Yarck to Yack – Life’s hard for a bloke in the bush.
Yackandandah, Vic Day 7 Friday 11/10/2024 Yackandandah, 8 – 23 warm sunny Once more we wake to a perfect morning. Woody walks up to the Happy Baker arriving on the dot of opening time of 7:00am and returns with a … Continue reading Yarck to Yack – Eating off old clothes & waving to astronauts
Euroa to Yackandandah, Vic Oct 2024 Day 6 Thursday 10/10/2024 Euroa to Yackandandah, 15 – 22 clear We get away at 8:30. MOP stays behind to wash her hair. Woody wants to buy more coffee beans in Benalla on the … Continue reading Yarck to Yack – Euroa to Yackandandah
Euroa, Vic, Oct 2024 Day 5 Wednesday 9/10/2024 Euroa, 3 – 19 sunny and improving. How good it is to stand in the doorway in the sun feeding ducks. We celebrate Elle’s birthday over morning tea. Joining us is a … Continue reading Yarck to Yack – Mrs. Doubtfire
Euroa, Vic, Oct 2024 Day 4 Tuesday 8/10/2024 Euroa, 4 – 16 breezy It’s nice to have a sleep in while Woody pounds the pavements and before we start chatting in the sun again. After lunch we pile into 2 cars and act on the instructions of the rather insistent ladies at the Info centre. They say that we can see a third of the state from the local lookout and we daren’t ignore their instructions. We take the Strathbogie Road up to Mt Wombat following a rather oddly worded mud map, we leave the bitumen and wind our way … Continue reading Yarck to Yack – The Strathbogie Ranges
Euroa, Vic, Oct 2024 Day 3 Monday 7/10/2024 Euroa, afternoon showers 7 – 18 It’s a morning of more yacking in the sunshine, bloody hell we can talk a lot. Woody and I take a stroll along the river and … Continue reading Yarck to Yack – Thank Goodness & Thank Gravity for The Northy
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 … Continue reading Yarck to Yack – Seven Creeks equals one what?
Yarck, Vic Day 1 Saturday 5/10/2024 Home to Yarck, 17.5 pleasant We head up Eastlink to Ringwood then veer off to Yarra Glen. The Yarra Valley is bursting with new spring growth and the vines march down the hillsides in … Continue reading Yarck to Yack – If the Russians keep vodka in the fridge…
Quorn, SA Those little towns south of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia were quite captivating. Quorn in particular echoes its busy railway heritage and that history keeps the town alive today. There’s no doubting that I’ll be sketching its … Continue reading Flinders Ranges – Sketches of Quorn
Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges, SA Nestled within the shelter of the ring of ranges that is Wilpena Pound, the sheep and cattle station operated for 135 years in what can only be described as a stunning setting. A community within … Continue reading Flinders Ranges – Sketches of Wilpena Station
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