Blogs from Cobram, Victoria, Australia, Oceania

Day 22 (5/11/2015) Got out early & headed to Shepparton. Saw the Ardmona SPC clearance outlet which sells food CHEAP. The rain closed in pretty early making for a rather bleak day; darting from shop to shop in between the rain. Had lunch at the Shepparton RSL. $10 meals including Barramundi or Roast among several others. Headed back via Numurkah where it pelted down with visibility limited to less than 50 metres with windscreen wipers on the fastest setting. Returned to the caravan park at Cobram to find it flooded after they had 32MM of rain. About 2 hours after getting back the heavens opened again, flooding the caravan park with another 21MM & leaving many people unable to get out of their caravans. The knee was extremely painful today as I try to not use ... read more

Day 17 (31/10/2015) Proposterous weather with thunder, lightning & teeming rain, followed by heat & no sign of the storm. This alternates regularly throughout the day. Flies are stickier than chewing gum on your shoe; you need bloody good insect repellent here as well as a hat net or you end up eating flies! Visited Tocumwal just down the road for the local markets on a Saturday morning which was quite pleasant (once the sun came out) & lots of good produce on display. Went out to the Barooga Sports Club which is quite a nice facility. They also send a bus to pick you up & take you home so that you don’t have to drink drive! Day 18 (1/11/2015) Woken up at some ungodly hour by massive thunder & lightning which rocked the caravan. ... read more

Geo: -35.9168, 145.651Up at 0830 had breakfast and at 0930 went for a drive to Yarrawong-Mulwala, in Yarrawonga called in to a great bargain store to get umbrella's which we needed packing up the van in Swan Hill and we are expecting rain this afternoon. The place was packed from ceiling to floor with everything you could possible want, Mick asked if they could fit any more things into the place and the girl said they keep trying. After buying the umbrellas we took a drive to Mulwala which had a huge lake that was pretty impressive. The whole area must get their water from it and the housing was around $100,000,000 to buy, just a bit out of our price range.Coming back to Cobram we called at Fyffe Field Wines for a bit of tasting ... read more

After our hectic long weekend, it was delightful to resume our quiet ways by the Murray, sharing it with one other caravan and a few canoers. Just out of Cobram is a beach called Twin Knobs and it was our home for a few days. Lilly was much happier and swimming more, enjoying "her" river to herself. I must be honest, for the second time in 28 months of living in the caravan I hit a wall. I was over flies, dirt, bugs and scorching heat. This was soon overcome by a few indulgences to sooth my soul.... read more

Christmas this year was at Sean's parents house. There was a bit of a party first on Christmas eve. On Christmas Day we had turkey (and free range chicken for me!) which was roasted on the barbie. Yes you can roast stuff on a bbq (you just need one with a lid!). There was Christmas crackers, pudding and all the usual suspects. The weather - cold & rainy just like home!!! For New Year's Eve we headed over to Vedran's place for a bit of a barbie. We had KANGAROO!!! Yummy! For the countdown we went to North Brighton beach. From here we could see the fireworks in the city. It was a great night even if I didn't go for a swim. Just as we were leaving though I feel on the rocks and cut ... read more