'Wherarwee' in Oz: Log 12-04 Murray Bridge

Well, another week has passed all to rapidly, on Modday, Stone the Crows was wrapped up with the finals of all the events, handing out of prizes & a final night of great entertainment. We packed the van ready for a fast getaway Tuesday morning.

Although weather was dry as we left Wagga, we soon ran into rain on the highway, it must have been raining for some time further West as the ground on both sides of the road were covered in a sheet of shallow water which spilled across the road in a few places. Pulling in for fuel at Naranderah we also had a nice hot cup of coffee & a bite to eat. We stopped by the Murrumbidge River for the night in a great free camp spot at Hay intending to do some shopping but it was wet, cold & miserable, 11ºC at 1:00PM. There was no TV reception either so we played games & read f or the rest of the day & evening.

Wednesday was still cold but dry & sunny & we pushed on to Balranald for fuel & food before proceeding to Ouyen for the night, after a walk around town & some lunch we decided to travel a bit further to Underbool. We actually stopped at the wrong rest area to the one we had picked out & were we glad we did. Power if we wanted it, hot showers & a quiet area opposite the pub, a bit disappointing to find that it was closed till 4:30 so we had happy hour with some other vanners that had stopped there. Leaving a donation in the box we took off next morning for Murray Bridge & once again stopped for fuel at Pinnaroo, just on the SA side of the border.

Arriving at Murray Bridge just after lunch we booked into Murray Bridge Tourist Park which had a special on for CMCA members for the rally. It was time to catch up on the washing & getting some of the mud off the car. This done we went into town for food & settled in. Next morning we walked around the park & found 3 other vans that we had been at Numurkah with. 2 had to leave Friday arvo as they were volunteers for the initial setup.

We took the car to Hahndorf to do some sightseeing in this very German town, had a german lunch in a cafe & bought a few trinketts. The number of tourists that visit here must be very large as all the cafes, restaurants & pubs were full of people as well as window shoppers, we spent about 4 hours in town then drove back to MB just in time for happy hour with Pat & Lyn. Another load of washing tomorrow & then just have a lazy day.

Sunday, several more motorhomes have arrived at the park & town is full of RV's shopping, sightseeing. We intended to visit Old Sailem Town today but the weather, although not raining, is against us so it's a morning of nothing & then some disc bowls before happy hour.

Tomorrow we will ready the van to go into the rally.