Blogs from Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia, Oceania

With a shorter distance to travel today (70kms) there wasn't the urgency of yesterday to get away so early - I didn't rouse until 7am. It was a pretty liesurely preparation which saw us leaving the Paradise Caravan Park just after 8:30am. Our destination for the day was Yackandanda via Beechworth. We started out of town on the "Murray to the Mountains" Rail Trail which will take us all the way to Beechworth. The rail trail is paved rather than gravel which makes the going a bit easier, as does the accompanying wind behind us. Not as strong as yesterday but certainly better than heading into it. The first station on the rail trail was Everton (27kms) which was mostly flat to undulating with a nice down ward run to the station. At this point the ... read more

Yackandandah to Granya We had a great couple of days in Yackandandah and a great time with Dee and Lee and now we are on our own again. We have been planning how to get back to Wagga Wagga and there were several ways of doing so, but we had to stop in Wodonga as we needed to get Andy’s mobile phone sorted out at a Telstra shop, it had a hissy fit and needed fixing. Once that was done we headed back toward Lake Hume (with a sneaky stop at Macca’s for a chai latte). The road we were taking in fact was back past the Bonegilla Migrant Centre, but as we came close to the turn off, I saw something strange in the distance, something just flew up in the air! Suddenly there was ... read more