May 2024 – St Arnaud, Vic At the beginning of the gold rush the gold found was alluvial and the work would have been back breaking. Panning, sluicing and digging with picks and shovels in country that was naturally dry … Continue reading Renmark Round Trip – Before We Move On
Day 3 Sunday 5/5/2024 St Arnaud, blue skies 7 – 21 While Woody walks, VeeWee and I drive out to Carapooee to see the pebble church that was built by my great grandfather and the other farmers and miners of … Continue reading Renmark Round Trip – All Out of Love
Day 2 Saturday 4/5/2024 Avoca to St. Arnaud, light cloud 6 – 20 It was 6 degrees overnight and quite mild. The drive up to St. Arnaud is through pleasant sheep country which merges into hungry, dry gold country. VeeWee … Continue reading Renmark Round Trip – Build it and they will come
May 2024 Day 1 Friday 3/5/2024 Home (Mornington Peninsula) to Avoca, sunny 11 here, 18 there With a couple of weeks to spare between medical appointments, we decide that there’s no need to sit at home looking at the calendar when the autumn weather is so mild and perfect for caravanning. Yep, we need some country air and it’s time to hitch up albeit briefly. We take the Mornington Peninsula freeway up to South Rd, then follow the bay along Beach Rd to the Westgate Bridge. The morning is gradually warming. What seemed to be never-ending tunnel works on the … Continue reading Renmark Round Trip – Break it up fellas!
Day 8 Saturday 24/2/2024 Rochester, sunny cool breeze 29˚ The Rochy Show has cranked up again and as we walk over we are surprised to see that it’s even busier than last night. In the livestock sheds a well-endowed billy … Continue reading Hello Rochy – Show n Shine
Day 7 Friday 23/2/2024 Rochester, sunny 26˚ No two days are ever the same when you’re in a caravan. We drive over to Kyabram to see the silo art by Jimmy DVate. The works are on a large squat water … Continue reading Hello Rochy – Hooroo & a hoofing heifer!
Day 6 Thursday 22/2/2024 Rochester, hot 38˚ It was another hot night and a warm morning. To get us out of the van we drive into Echuca for lunch at the Old Post Office café. The air con is nice. Thinking that a drive to Torrumbarry Weir on the Murray River would be a good idea in this heat, we set off with me behind the wheel and Woody navigating. Of course, the VW navigation leaves a lot to be desired and Woody refusing to use Google Maps (his excuse being that it’s more fun to get lost) we never … Continue reading Hello Rochy – You call this fun?
Day 5 Wednesday 21/2/2024 Rochester, Warm 31.5˚ Last night was hot with a thunderstorm, which meant that just as we were cooling down, the rain forced us to close the roof hatches. Instant sauna. We drive back to Colbinabbin for lunch at the pub the one that we’d promised ourselves and discover that the dining room has a view of the painted silos and a caravan that is camped for the night in the pub’s backyard. Lunch is as good as we’d heard, and the menu wasn’t all the ‘usual suspects’ either. Woody moans ecstatically over the Spaghetti Marinara and … Continue reading Hello Rochy – A Grey Nomad’s Dream
Day 4 Tuesday 20/2/2024 Rochester, hot 34˚ It’s a pleasant morning and we take a walk into town to buy another of those delicious chooks. It’s also a chance to photograph the back of the town’s painted silo which I … Continue reading Hello Rochy – The 2022 Floods
Day 3 Monday 19/2/2024 Rochester, warm 32˚ The park has emptied out and it’s a peaceful morning just watching the manager on the lawnmower and ‘Steptoe & Son’ who are cleaning the site where an onsite van sat only yesterday. … Continue reading Hello Rochy – The Mighty Murray
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