Day 4 Wednesday 22/03/2023 Broken Creek Last night Pyjama Girl wandered off to bed early to nurse her cold and I wasn’t far behind. Woody woke in the night with cramps again and heaven forbid that anyone heard the moaning … Continue reading Coughin’ Off to Broken Creek – Night Noises & Skeletons
Day 3 Tuesday 21/3/2023 Broken Creek, storms 25˚ I see it’s a nice morning as I drop the blind and come face to face with a sheep outside the window. We’ve already plugged the espresso in at the camp kitchen … Continue reading Coughin’ Off to Broken Creek – An Italian Night & an Interrogation
Day 2 Monday 20/03/2023 Longwood to Broken Creek, cloudy warm 29˚ We did a really good job of keeping ourselves awake coughing last night until the cough mixture finally knocked us out. At least we get a sleep-in this morning … Continue reading Coughin’ Off to Broken Creek – Ah, we’re there
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
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
Caulfield Park, Melbourne, Vic There is a mellowness to Melbourne in Autumn. Warm sunny days quickly give way to cool evenings. The desire to snuggle up in a favourite jumper becomes overpowering. The sadness that summer has gone for another … Continue reading Caulfield Park
Day 10 Saturday 18/2/2023 Nicholson, Cool cloudy, 22˚ Although it didn’t rain much and was a warm night everything looks bright green and washed clean. How nice it is to stand under the shower and hear the distinctive call of … Continue reading Nicking off to Nicholson – Day 10 – Home via Bunyip & Koo Wee Rup
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
Day 8 Thursday 16/2/2023 Nicholson, hot 34˚ It’s a warm night and I’m woken in the early morning by the noise of a possum banging the open roof hatch, trampolining on the flywire, playing with the TV aerial, and stomping … Continue reading Nicking off to Nicholson – Day 8 – Flatty Tails & Flopping About
Day 7 Wednesday 15/2/2023 Nicholson, Warm Woody was up early and bouncing in and out of the caravan helping the boys cook breakfast in the camp kitchen. It’s a warm morning and the sun streams in, the boys dart back … Continue reading Nicking off to Nicholson – Day 7 – Sipping & Savouring
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