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Coughin' Off to Broken Creek, Vic, Zip Trips9 Comments

Coughin’ Off to Broken Creek – Send her down Huey

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Day 5 Thursday 23/03/2023 Broken Creek, warm & stormy Lunch today is at the nearby Goorambat Pub just a few k’s away. I’ve now lost my voice and still feel tired and snuffly. With everyone going to the pub, I crawl back under the covers in an effort to sleep it off. I’m warm as toast and quickly nod off. Then the phone rings, it’s I & S (not Legless and his good wife but the other I & S) they’re lost again and have gone to the wrong pub. “They’re at the Goorambat” I whisper. I think it’s time … Continue reading Coughin’ Off to Broken Creek – Send her down Huey

Coughin' Off to Broken Creek, Vic, Zip Trips5 Comments

Coughin’ Off to Broken Creek – Longwood

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Day 1 Sunday 19/3/2023 Home to Longwood, cloudy 25 We leave a little later than normal as it seems that I’ve caught the cold that Woody is in the last stages of. I doubt that we’ve had a decent night’s sleep in a week thanks to his coughing and leg cramps. But we should feel much better when we get to the drier climate north of The Divide (The Great Dividing Range north of which the climate is always warmer and drier). There’s a Fun Run through the city today, so we begrudgingly take Eastlink and on through Heidelberg and … Continue reading Coughin’ Off to Broken Creek – Longwood

Nicking Off to Nicholson, Vic, Zip Trips5 Comments

Nicking off to Nicholson – Revisited

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Gippsland, March 2023 The nice thing about blogging is the chance to revisit places in your mind. As you transcribe the scribbled notes the memories flood back vividly. Even more so for sketching. Urban sketching can mean sitting in the sun drawing of all things, a toilet block. Woody thinks I draw too many toilets. Travel sketching allows you to both remember the place and time and to explore the details of that building that caught your eye or the old wooden camp kitchen where the bacon and eggs were so delicious. Continue reading Nicking off to Nicholson – Revisited

Nicking Off to Nicholson, Vic, Zip Trips16 Comments

Nicking off to Nicholson – Day 9 – Bluff & Bluster

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Day 9 Friday 17/2/2023 Nicholson, hot 36˚ With our formal muster over, most of our caravan club members head for home. It is preferable to stay put rather than take a longish drive on a hot day. The weather, however, behaves unexpectedly. During breakfast, we have a half-hour shower of heavy rain cooling things down quite markedly. A bunch of us decide to visit Metung and have lunch at the legendary Metung Pub. The sky is now blue, there’s a light breeze and the moored boats looked very inviting. Lunch overlooking Bancroft Bay gets a tick of approval from us … Continue reading Nicking off to Nicholson – Day 9 – Bluff & Bluster