Blogs from Mildura, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 4

Wednesday 29th Travelled from Berri, SA to Mildura, Vic then crossed the border to NSW to the RiverGardens Tourist Park in GOL GOL, NSW. Three states in one day!!!!!! This park is a small park right on the Murray River - just gorgeous so we booked in for 7 nights for $150 (1 night free so saved $25). Thursday 30th June Went for a tourist drive around Mildura and found Loch 11 just as the paddle steamer the "Melbourne" was coming through the loch - it was quite exciting seeing the loch gates open the the steamer going through. We are going to go on this steamer on Monday for a ride up the Murray River. Went back to have a sausage sizzle on the free BBQ at the caravan park then sat by the Murray ... read more

Hey Hey Mildura was lovely... This was a great fun couple of days with my family and friends. Attempted water skiing and wake baording - Got up eventually woohoo! So much fun on the biscuits, my cousin driving the boat trying to flip us off.... My arms ached for days. xxx... read more

Mildura Travelled down from Broken Hill to Mildura on the 27th. 28th sorted my bus travel back to Melbourne, but due to flooding in Victoria it would take a detour or two. Also spent the night at the Sand Bar... interesting pub. 29th Mildura speedway... read more

Leigh Adams Testimonial Meeting at Olympic Park An excellent evening/night was had at Mildura Olympic Park stadium for Leigh Adams Testimonial. One of the largest crowds ever in Mildura recent history paid tribute to the man of the moment. Big Fat Dave was in attendance and I was introduced to Spider (BFD's sidecar mate - a true gent). Spider had organised the tickets and took us to and from the track. There was a surprise appearance of Tomasz Gollob ;-). Excellent meeting with the junior solos featuring Arthur Sissis and Max Fricke to name but two, some top notch sidecars (Aussie champs etc in field) and the senior solos with a guest appearance by Tony Rickardsson who raced around for a demonstration 4 laps (although rather annoyingly his demo was the only video that didn't save). ... read more

Mildura 4 Jan saw me take a bus from Swan Hill to Mildura (approx 2hrs 40 mins). The main reason for visiting Mildura was to take in the Leigh Adams Testimonial dinner and race meeting. I arrived mid afternoon and met up with a mate (Dave or to give him his Sunday name Big Fat Dave (Dave is the Aussie equivalent of John Horne)). Dave had kindly organised my tickets for the dinner and race meeting. A couple of his mates had also joined Donna and Amy. The dinner took place in the Coomealla Memorial Sporting Club Auditorium which is actually in Dareton (a small town 17km outside Mildura). Most of Australia speedway's great a good were there from Leigh Adams (himself naturally), Chris Holder (sporting a bad hair choice - ponytail not a good look ... read more