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03/5/2019 at 8:58am
Location: Melbourne Australia
Outfit: Windsor Rapid Off Road Van + tents
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Our Xmas Holiday,
We left early on Boxing day morning, heading for our favourite camp on the banks of the Murray in the north east of Vic. We always stop at Glenrowan (famous for where Ned Kelly was finally captured) for morning tea as it’s roughly half way to our campsite.
The picnic ground where we stop is the site where Ned Kelly and his gang were to launch Skyrockets to alert sympathises to join them on their proposed siege of the town.They planned to tear up the railway line on the outskirts of Glenrowan to derail the police train travelling to Beechworth. A lot more happened at that time, too much to cover here.
The site is right opposite the towns railway station.
Off the bitumen, the access track to our camp, and what a spot it is.
Not far from our camp is the Jingellic Pub (Bridge Hotel) established in 1925, it is set back from the Murray River by about 50 metres making it the closet pub to it in it’s entire length, (supposedly, how’s that for a useless fact!!).
As murals have become all the rage around the country, I photographed these behind the info centre in Corryong.
Nothing to report on the cooking side, every meal was a success (as Jen was on duty this time) but one morning I offered to do frogs legs for breakfast, she declined very quickly and enquired where in the hell that had come from, then I showed her this little fella!
Getting him out of there was a bit of a job but in the end all was good!
A couple of hundred metres upstream is a bend in the river where there is a lovely deep swimming hole.
A nice sunset over that same hole/bend in the river.
We spent 8 nights there, a bit of cloud on a few days but not one day below 38 degrees, most around 40 with a couple of 43s thrown in just sensational. On a couple of days rain threatened but that’s all it did, threaten.
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I had brought some timber from home as a campfire is something special, (I try to leave what I find locally for all the bugs and critters as much as I can) so one morning when the temps dropped down to the mid 20s!!!!! I got the fire going.
We probably sat 20 metres back from it, still looked the goods though Ha!!
Time to move onto our next campsite, we were aiming for another spot on the banks of the Murray but this time a lot further upstream in the Tom Groggin region high in the Australian Alps. On our way there we drove through some stunning country.
When we found this clearing and picnic table right beside the river we felt we had found free camping heaven, one of our best campsites ever.
Nearby were a few plaques that told some of the early history of this particular location.
We spent most of our time there in the river, just absolutely sensational, the calm conditions created plenty of reflections as well.
One reason I wanted to stay in this area was so I could drive to one of the high countries most iconic huts. With 4wd engaged we crossed the Murray and headed up the track that had only been opened the week previous.
The Davies Plain Hut was built in the early 1890s by the Gibson family, it was substantially burnt in the 1939 bush fires but they rebuilt it and continued to use it up until 1956 when the last cattle were removed from the run. Over the years it started to deteriorate but recently it has been substantially repaired with a wood store being added to the rear.
Fairly basic inside but when the weather conditions turn and your caught in a snow storm, it would then be the ants pants!
There was a family of Gang Gangs there that seemed a bit miffed at our close proximity to what they must have thought was their home, which it probably was!
Near the hut was the old cattle yards and then we stopped for morning tea a short distance back down the track at a high country stream.
This is the track that led to our camp, the hot weather continued here and the local wildlife took every opportunity to shelter in whatever shade they could find.
A few hop hops frequented us around our camp, one in particular was a bit partial to steak and sausage residue!!
After three glorious days/nights it was time to now head off on the next part of our holiday, all that which will be shown in the next (final) report from.
Regards Col and Jen.
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The worst day above ground, is a whole lot better than the best one under it. Live life to the fullest while you can.
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