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
Day 2 Monday 16/12/24 Vaughan Springs to Cohuna, Hot 21 – (expected top 46) Although it was a very hot night we slept well and woke to pink clouds overhead. It is expected to be in the 40’s today, so … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – A hot one
Day 1 Sunday 15/12/2024, Home to Vaughan Springs. 27◦ Pleasant to 34◦ Getting warm Our Xmas tradition is to celebrate early then spend the Xmas break in a Victorian country town. We take the Monash and Calder highways and have … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – Just a Sunday Drive Really
A ramble through Central Victoria, Nov 2024 Continue reading Somewhere to Rochester – Sketches & Memories
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