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Published: April 13th 2009
On the road again!
Here we are stopped at Euroa for lunch.Hi everyone
After Lakes Entrance we drove down to Wilsons Prom and spent a night in the National Park Camping Ground at Tidal River. On 8th Feb 2009, the day after Black Saturday, a dry lightning storm ignited bush on Wilsons Prom. This fire burnt 25,200 ha over 5 weeks, close to 50% of the National Park. We drove through some of the fire affected areas, but mostly it was in remote and rugged country. The campsite area was saved by a lucky change of wind direction. It was drizzly, blowing hard and cold while we were there, but we did manage to do some of the walks. We then had 2 nights in Melbourne, got sorted and left at last to travel NORTH and eventually circumnavigate Australia anticlockwise.
We drove up the Hume Highway motorway from Melbourne on Wednesday, and stopped off at the border town of Wodonga. We decided to stay here over Easter, and will continue on tomorrow, after the traffic has died down, to Gundagai (so we're on "the road to Gundagai", as the song says!), then on to Wagga Wagga and from there onto the Newell Highway north.
Wodonga is on the south side of the
Historical Trestle Train Bridge
Near Nowa Nowa on the south coast, now a rail trail for bikes. Murray River, Albury is across the river (in NSW), and we have done a bit of exploring around here. We drove to the Hume Dam, which is very low in water, Beechworth , a pretty town with lots of history, past some more fire affected areas to Bright, a very pretty town with lots of lovely big trees, some just starting to turn to autumn colours. We drove back over the hills via Mt Beauty. We have been to a local Gymkhana at Bethanga, which had a variety of activities including dogs jumping, children's sack , egg and spoon etc races, and of course lots of horse activities, including jumps, slalom, turning etc. We were probably the only non locals there! Yesterday we went to Leneva to a Steam and oil-fired engines rally. (just my thing!!!) There were more than 100 vintage tractors, and engines on display, even lots of really old chainsaws. After that we drove to Yackandandah, another very pretty , olde world town. Again lots of lovely trees, and some of the shops amazing - full to overflowing with things nobody has bought for years!!!I had a poke around a drapery shop with lots of bric a
Lake Tyers
Lunch here, the sandbar separates the lake from the sea, but it does drain after very heavy rain. brack, ribbons, etc, and 2 second hand type shops were amazing. One had lots of pedal cars and sewing machines including old singer treadle ones, and even an original Eames chair, like Kent sells in his shop! This campsite has been a good choice as it has lovely big trees and plenty of space. We have a big oak tree by us, which drops acorns (like Tracey and Kent's house, the acorns drop on the roof at night!) We have done quite a few walks, including one along the river. They have lots of walking / cycle tracks here, including an old rail trail track.
Cheers Lynne and Chris
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RickAND sUE
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'bye Victoria
Well done again Lynne a really good "travel commentary" - when you eventually settle down (in N.Z!) we reckon that you have a future as a tour guide....don't know yet what Chris would do........maybe there are some suggestions from others on the list. Sue and I recognise several of the names in your last 2 blogs - we have cousins living at a place called Paynesville - in the Lakes Entrance general area, and of course Albury,as you will no doubt confirm in your next communication, is the home of Borg-Warner Transmissions Australia. I should have given you a shopping list. Keep up the good communications..we love it! Best regards.....Rick and Sue