Packed up and out ....back in the car ..... Drove out to the Hume Dam quite impressive once the biggest Dam in the Southern Hemisphere (1930s) reminded me again of Karapiro and Cambridge (Albury and Hume Dam) stopped at the quirky little store and had a rum and raisin ice cream and coffee looking out over the lake, spent quite some time. Drove onto Gerogery and past the Ettamogah Pub neat landscape very interesting rolling farming and cropping country, stopped at Culcairn and Henty very old historic towns late 1800s, not much happening but very tidy and still populated, big farming districts. Got into Wagga Wagga the largest inland town in New South Wales, a looooong Main Street 80,000. pop, about 5.30pm, went down for dinner at Red Rooster 7pm and the end to another day. ... read more

Breakfast again at the Hotel to set us up for the day and off to the Cars .... just amazing a huge collection of everything Chrysler in one place 750 odd cars .... will have to check the numbers. This year spotlight on the American Muscle and by the time we got quarter through the rows it was only 1pm .... swap merchants and merchandise was a struggle to get the last T Shirt in captivity for Don.... sunny but a cool breeze March is a lovely time to visit and I learnt more car knowledge, 2pm they started to move out to the Gerogery Pub for the photo shoot for American Mopar Muscle Mag .... Fletch (Classic Restos) has been doing his thing the last couple of days too. We headed back to the Hotel ... read more

Thursday up and out had a look around Wangaratta did a little shopping and drove on toward Albury, found a really old Historic Town Chiltern and had a coffee .... like a ghost town with most shops open, had a drive around and saw lots of old houses .. quite a sizeable town. Drove on towards Albury and had a look at Rutherglen another very old town, didn't stop carried on through vineyards and old mansions to Albury, rolled in about 4pm and very much like Cambridge with lots of oak trees down all streets ... a bit bigger than Cambridge but very nice. Sorted out at the Motel then down to the SS&A Club in Albury for dinner ... a huge complex and we had the seafood platter for 2 it was far to much ... read more

A good nights rest and packed up headed out at 9 am started on the Alpine Highway and climbed up through lots of valleys and good farmland. Stopped at Omeo and found another bakery which seem more popular in South Australia instead of Northern Australia suits Don for his pies.... had a coffee and a wander around not much happening and quite a small place. At midday we carried on the road becoming really windy and more scrub than trees, drove into a village called Dinner Plain ... a huge Ski resort, never realised Australia had these and high Alpine areas boy what a surprise to find 10 km up the road the Ski Fields Mt Hotham ... quite an operation and very high .... I almost couldn't drive over the top 1861 metres and down ... read more

Had a good night in a comfortable room and got away about 9 am to the Bega Cheese Factory had a good look around and coffee and cake drove on out after filling up with gas toward Tathra on the coast, the old town up on top of the headland took a drive down to the beach where they were having Surf Life Saving Comps didn't hang around for long and onto Merimbula through very green farmland and estuaries. Reached Merimbula about mid day very busy and a good size upmarket looking seaside town ... lots of Oyster farms up the estuary and their EAT festival on along the estuary, we found a park quite close and had a walk along the food tents baiscally cleaned out of all their fare and only cash sales so ... read more