Pie Night

December 18, 2017December 13, 2017 Itching for Hitching

Camped in Nagambie,Vic for our September club muster and we shared the caravan park with (or should I say we were grossly outnumbered by) hundreds of hot rods who were in town for the Cranksters Rod Run. On Saturday night the Cranksters were cranking up the music while we furiously baked our pies for our scheduled ‘Pie Night’. The games room was filled with the aroma of dozens of hot pies, peas and mash. While Woody baked his contribution in the pie maker on the van (if there is a kitchen gadget that isn’t on our van I’d like to … Continue reading Pie Night

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Forget the ‘Big’ things applaud the amazing

December 17, 2017December 13, 2017 Itching for Hitching

Perhaps I’m getting sentimental. After all we are nearing the end of another year but this is the time when families are on a quest to visit the big banana, the big prawn, the big pineapple, the big sheep, the big … Continue reading Forget the ‘Big’ things applaud the amazing

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Melbourne’s Bathing Boxes

December 16, 2017December 13, 2017 Itching for Hitching

Melbourne has been fortunate to keep a tradition from the bygone Victorian era. Lines of brightly painted bathing boxes or boat sheds are a common sight particularly on the more populous eastern shores of Port Phillip Bay. The general rule … Continue reading Melbourne’s Bathing Boxes

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At the Top of the Road

December 15, 2017December 12, 2017 Itching for Hitching

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The Lazy Tourist’s Guide to Magnetic Island

December 14, 2017December 12, 2017 Itching for Hitching

Winter 2016 We catch the ferry over to Magnetic Island. Ferries run every hour and the trip only takes 20 minutes. We’re on the aft deck beside two young ambo’s and a nurse. Laden with a gurney and equipment they … Continue reading The Lazy Tourist’s Guide to Magnetic Island

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Benalla Ceramic Mural

December 12, 2017December 11, 2017 Itching for Hitching

A community art project by the people of Benalla, Vic under the guidance of artists Judy Lorraine and David W. Moore, this ingenious, yet whimsical sculpture of ceramics and terracotta drew on the talents of more than a thousand recognised … Continue reading Benalla Ceramic Mural

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Wandering Winton Wetlands

December 12, 2017December 11, 2017 Itching for Hitching

Spring 2017 Silly us, we thought that it would be nice to walk around the Winton Wetlands and pictured short boardwalks around a small swamp. We parked our cars and realised our mistake when we saw the enormity of the … Continue reading Wandering Winton Wetlands

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FIFO Travellers

December 11, 2017December 10, 2017 Itching for Hitching

You know the ones and we’re all guilty, they fly in for a few days then fly home and talk forever about when they ‘did’ Rome or Mauritius. Or the cruise ships that once stayed several days in port but these days only give passengers 6 or 8 hours to see a city in its entirety. Oh dear as I write this Woody has just stripped naked and dunked himself in the river! Thinks he’s 17 not 71. Now where was I? Yes, 6 hours in port “Oh yes, we did Barcelona, Kyoto or Vancouver.” The antithesis of this is … Continue reading FIFO Travellers

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Police Paddocks

December 9, 2017December 8, 2017 Itching for Hitching

Nine kilometres north of Rutherglen, Vic on Murphy’s Creek an anabranch of the Murray River is the 1880’s Police Paddocks reserve. It was here that the police once spelled their horses on the large grassy islands. We have a level … Continue reading Police Paddocks

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Are We Losing It…again?

December 9, 2017December 8, 2017 Itching for Hitching

Winter 2017 We’ve been out of TV range for the last few nights so we started watching Season 4 of A Place to Call Home (a family saga set in New South Wales). After a big night at the bowling club where we are camped we thought that we might just watch the first episode. We had awful trouble trying to remember who was on with who from the last series but what the heck. After all it had been quite a few years since we saw the last season on TV. Needless to say we fell into bed feeling … Continue reading Are We Losing It…again?