Well we are off on a 3 week tour of Victoria starting this coming saturday 22nd Oct
At 9 amm 3 vans will depart Whyalla and head for Overland Corner, bush camp sat night
Sunday depart for Swan Hill where we are booked into the Pental Island Caravan Park and Holiday Farm until the following Thursday then its off to Euchca for a few days then down through central Victoria to Ballarat Some excursions into Melbourne are planned and I have to fly to Sydney for a day for a meeting
From Ballarat we will be moving onto a farm for a few days as one of our crew has rellies there
Will keep you informed of our travels
I will be tail end charlie so look out for Grey Nomad sticker on my bumper on the van
pauline said
09:58 PM Oct 19, 2011
Sounds fantastic, enjoy and stay safe...
goinsoon said
10:01 PM Oct 19, 2011
Did a similar trip last year and early this year, only there were two vans.
You will have a great time - enjoy
Rip and Rosie said
08:27 AM Oct 20, 2011
Nice one snapper. Are you coming to Greens Lake ? Its not too far from Echuca they tell me.
chris & terry said
09:22 AM Oct 20, 2011
nice to be so pre organised. I do no know where I will be next week or what I will be doing. But then again that's how we live now.
terry
ken thomas said
12:56 PM Oct 20, 2011
hopefully you will get to Greens lake and meet up with some other nomads, anytime from the 4th Nov we will be there Ken
snapper49 said
02:02 PM Oct 20, 2011
Had a look at green lake on google earth where abouts is the camping area as i couldnt pick it? thanks
ok I think I found it about halfway down on the western side
no campers visible on the day that the pic was taken
-- Edited by snapper49 on Thursday 20th of October 2011 02:15:10 PM
gordon_adl said
05:34 PM Oct 20, 2011
Check out the overland corner pub. Very neat place. For sale btw
Ron and Shirley said
06:19 PM Oct 20, 2011
On various trips have stopped at the Overland Corner Hotel for a cooling ale.
It is a great outback pub, one Shogun should have on his list to visit.
There is a mark up on the wall of the Pub, above the door from memory, showing where the flood in the mid 1950s peaked.
Amazing when you look around at the flat, but beautiful, countryside over to the river about a kilometre or so away.
snapper49 said
08:34 PM Oct 22, 2011
Left Whyalla this morning at 9 am Arrived Overland Corner 3 pm Yabbie nets out and catching a few had a slow trip from port augusta to port pirie due to the stragglers from the solar challenge Tomorrow should be in Swsan Hill
Happywanderer said
08:41 PM Oct 22, 2011
Snapper. Greens Lake is halfway between Echuca and Bendigo. Turn off at Elmore and go about 24mks, then turn left just after Corop. There are a couple of grey nomads there at the moment and depending on when you come through, there could be more.
snapper49 said
02:50 PM Oct 24, 2011
Three of us under the bridge at Mildura on sunday afternoon after a run from overland corner
we camped at overland corner sat night where put in few yabbie nets
Does anyone know what murray cod are like to eat? I'm not keen on fresh water fish, but the cod is a bit elusive, so I was just wondering if anyone here has eaten any.
ChiChi1 said
11:18 PM Oct 26, 2011
Can be the biggest fish in the murray system. Bit muddy from my experience.. Redfin are the preferred eating fish. But that goes back 50 yrs before they started stocking programs. Gee, its been a long time.
Gerty Dancer said
08:59 AM Oct 27, 2011
Cruising Granny wrote:
Does anyone know what murray cod are like to eat? I'm not keen on fresh water fish, but the cod is a bit elusive, so I was just wondering if anyone here has eaten any.
From memory a very fatty fish. I didnt like them, like Chi Chi preferred redfin, and freshwater catfish is alright too.
snapper49 said
04:38 PM Oct 30, 2011
All 3 of us nw in Ballarat I was to fly to Sydney from melbourne today and return for a meeting but qantas put that plan to bed Now I have to wait for a full refund Weather in Ballarat has been crappy to say the least Have had a look at the shops Monday we will start doing the tourist thingy
gubby said
05:00 PM Oct 30, 2011
snapper49 wrote:
All 3 of us nw in Ballarat I was to fly to Sydney from melbourne today and return for a meeting but qantas put that plan to bed Now I have to wait for a full refund Weather in Ballarat has been crappy to say the least Have had a look at the shops Monday we will start doing the tourist thingy
Where abouts in Ballarat are you staying?
snapper49 said
11:13 PM Nov 8, 2011
sorry gubby didnt see your post until now
We stayed in the welcome stranger
Have been staying on afarm at cavendish and are now on our way home back to whyalla
Well we are off on a 3 week tour of Victoria starting this coming saturday 22nd Oct
At 9 amm 3 vans will depart Whyalla and head for Overland Corner, bush camp sat night
Sunday depart for Swan Hill where we are booked into the Pental Island Caravan Park and Holiday Farm until the following Thursday then its off to Euchca for a few days then down through central Victoria to Ballarat Some excursions into Melbourne are planned and I have to fly to Sydney for a day for a meeting
From Ballarat we will be moving onto a farm for a few days as one of our crew has rellies there
Will keep you informed of our travels
I will be tail end charlie so look out for Grey Nomad sticker on my bumper on the van
Did a similar trip last year and early this year, only there were two vans.
You will have a great time - enjoy
Are you coming to Greens Lake ? Its not too far from Echuca they tell me.
terry
Ken
Had a look at green lake on google earth
where abouts is the camping area as i couldnt pick it? thanks
ok I think I found it about halfway down on the western side
no campers visible on the day that the pic was taken
-- Edited by snapper49 on Thursday 20th of October 2011 02:15:10 PM
On various trips have stopped at the Overland Corner Hotel for a cooling ale.
It is a great outback pub, one Shogun should have on his list to visit.
There is a mark up on the wall of the Pub, above the door from memory, showing where the flood in the mid 1950s peaked.
Amazing when you look around at the flat, but beautiful, countryside over to the river about a kilometre or so away.
had a slow trip from port augusta to port pirie due to the stragglers from the solar challenge
Tomorrow should be in Swsan Hill
There are a couple of grey nomads there at the moment and depending on when you come through, there could be more.
Three of us under the bridge at Mildura on sunday afternoon after a run from overland corner
we camped at overland corner sat night where put in few yabbie nets
we were rewarded with a yabbie each for breaky
Finally got myself a murray cod
we are now at swan hill until thursday then moving on to Euchca
Greens lake is on the cards for a quick stop over
we will see how we go
Visited something special today
Was the flying boat museum at Lake Boga about 12k east of Swan Hill
I'm not keen on fresh water fish, but the cod is a bit elusive, so I was just wondering if anyone here has eaten any.
From memory a very fatty fish. I didnt like them, like Chi Chi preferred redfin, and freshwater catfish is alright too.
I was to fly to Sydney from melbourne today and return for a meeting but qantas put that plan to bed
Now I have to wait for a full refund
Weather in Ballarat has been crappy to say the least
Have had a look at the shops Monday we will start doing the tourist thingy
Where abouts in Ballarat are you staying?
We stayed in the welcome stranger
Have been staying on afarm at cavendish and are now on our way home back to whyalla