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08/4/2020 at 4:33am
Location: Melbourne Australia
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To give you all something to look at and help you pass some time, I give you this.
A trip we did late last year, hope you enjoy.
Stay safe, stay well.
We left Melbourne at 4.30 on Friday arvo for the four day Melbourne Cup long weekend, driving west to a free camp beside Walkers Lake at Avon Plains, about 3.5 hours away.
The day had been quite hot but a forecast change was due later that evening with the next few days weather to be pretty crappy. Less than an hour after we had arrived the first showers hit us.
I’m sure the local farmers would have been rapt for although the drought conditions here in Vic or in this particular part of it were not quite as bad as the rest of the country, it still was very dry.
I had wanted to stay at this Lake for some time, after you have seen a few of the pics from our time away, you will know why. These next pics feature a particular tree just to the right of our van, emphasising the changing conditions we experienced whilst there.
Our campsite just a few metres back from the waters edge.
One day we drove into Donald which was about 15 ks north of us, I told Jen I wanted to show her a “Bullocks Head” she was intrigued if not a bit confused.
A close up of that protrusion on the right hand side of the tree in the water.
There is an historic precinct in town which had some wonderful old buildings and plenty of memorabilia from many years ago.
That shepherds hut had quite some history, they were used from the earliest settlement period of the district from around 1844 up until the late 1860s, when fencing became all the rage. Two shepherds per hut were usually used, one would attend the sheep and the other would look after the hut, protecting it from theft or damage from the local indigenous lads!
More scenes back at the lake, this time basically looking directly in front of our van, again a particular tree is featured, and what a tree it was.
As we were near (relatively so) to some of the states newly painted silo art, we took a drive to see them.
The first one we came to was at Nullawil, I had already seen it but for Jen it was new, I have shown it in another report, so only a couple of pics of it this time.
The next silo we stopped at was at Sea Lake, it had only recently been completed.
If you look closely, there is more to see than the obvious scenes.
Sea Lake is becoming a must see for people interested in murals, here are some you can see in town and then another from a few ks away.
Now most would be aware of Melbourne’s or Victoria’s weather, you know “four seasons in the one day” type thing, and that I have already shown you. It would be black as the ace of spades one minute bright sunshine the next and a bit of rain before and after all that.
Every day we would do a 2.5 k walk around the lake. On the far side it abutted some wheat fields where I took these next few pics on a couple of those walks.
As I have already shown you some murals from the region, I’ll now show you what Donald has to offer, they capture the early history of the town and region.
Some more scenes at the lake, this time looking to the left of our camp.
Reeds and wildlife near our van.
The sunsets were not overly dramatic but some of the stormy clouds added to the bit of colour one evening.
On the Tuesday we broke camp and headed home, again not the most direct route from where we were to Melbourne!!
As we passed through Donald, I stopped to take a few pics of some of the old buildings there, the first photo is of the National Bank Of Australasia which was built in 1884.
On our drive we spotted this unique piece of machinery, very clever our Victorian farmers!!
A quick visit to the outdoor Museum in “Kerang”
Standing on the levee bank at the rear of the Museum, the Loddon River is artificially kept high by a nearby weir.
Well thats a snap shot of our four days away, a bit of everything.
Regards Col & 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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26/4/2020 at 1:25am
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Hi all,
Firstly to Colin, hang in there mate re the lockdown, the alternative isn't all that great at the moment.
Both Jen and I are in our mid 60s and so not quite in the older bracket yet!! (although most of our family would disagree with that Ha!)
We have a lockdown of sorts here, called social isolating you are not supposed to leave home other than for four reasons and there are variations on that. Still very restrictive and caught doing the wrong thing and there are very severe fines imposed.
Our countries response is working, we have a population of just under 26 million and so far only 81 people have died due to the virus.
More and more silos and regional art are being painted/created all the time, this is done to encourage visitors to rural areas. Obviously that can't be done at the moment but once restrictions are eased there are a few I'm keen to see.
Now I'm aware of all the things that can kill you in Australia, and yes there are plenty of them. Crocs aren't found in our state, if I was to leave home and drive to the nearest point where I could see one, or be eaten by one I would have to travel between 2,500 and 3,000 kilometres. Basically the top third of the country can have crocs, but we still have a number of things to be very careful of here in the south.
Last summer I was swimming in our pool when I noticed right on the edge of it, a venomous Red Backed Spider. I jumped out of the pool real quick!! Not through fear but to get my camera, such a great sighting. I safely removed it to the bush next to our house so all was sweet, but I now do keep my eyes peeled a bit more. because they might be pretty but they can pack a deadly bite.
Stay safe and well.
Regards from Col.
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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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