Blogs from Gunbower, Victoria, Australia, Oceania

The morning we leave Swan Hill for Cohuna begins with bacon and eggs while we listen to our slightly rowdy neighbours, a flock of corellas feeding just outside the caravan. Cohuna is a town that we have driven through many times on our way to the Australian snowfields but we have never stopped for longer than a petrol fill. So this trip we decide to stay and have a look around for a couple of days, just to see what is here. The Gunbower Island caravan park sounded promising and we are delighted with our site facing the wetlands of Gunbower Creek. Looking at the black swans and pelicans gliding past we wish that we had packed the kayak. We have a waterbird paradise right outside our door. After setting up we decide to walk into ... read more

Well most of today was spent updating the blog entries (today is the 2nd of November so another day blogging!). This takes time as I first type them in a word doc, for spelling etc, then paste them into the blog sit, add the photos and edit there order and names, then make the map. Photos first get down loaded of the camera, the ‘good’ one are chosen, edited and saved into a separate folder. After catching up with two word doc’s it was lunch time so I walked into Gunbower for some lunch at the Road House come Corner Store and Newsagent. I had a huge chicken schnitzel sandwich; mayo, chicken, lettuce, tomato (!!!!), fried onion and cheese. Then it was back to the cabin and more typing. At 3.00pm I had another break with ... read more

A lovely day dawned so I choose to do bird watching over any indoor learning. Especially after the mind boggling effort of editing packages yesterday! First, with a large group of likeminded people, we went up to Cohuna and out to a forested area beside the Murray River on Gunbower Island. A couple of Red-capped Robins fighting, lots of White-wing Coughs, Nankeen Night Herons and Sacred Kingfishers were some of the bird we saw. There were also pockets of hoppers! It was a little bit ‘biblical’ on a small scale. Back in Cohuna we stopped near the caravan park for morning tea and a look at the Gunbower from the Island Rd. On the way back to Gunbower via the Island Rd we stopped off at a picnic point for a walk through some more Black ... read more

To get to Gunbower I could go down the Cobb Hwy to Echuca or a more scenic tour through the Millewa State Forest. To get to the Millewa Rd I had to go out off Deniliquin to the west and then down through farming country on the Aratula Rd. I saw one large Breaded Dragon, looking like a piece of bark until I went to get out of the car to look at him then it was gone! And one black coloured snake, not sure what it was as by the time I swerved to miss it and then turned around to look at it, it had slipped away (no I was not going to get out and pick it up! Just wanted to see what it was). Once on the Millewa Rd I was in ... read more