Leeton

Sep 29–Oct 1 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

Ok so we had a bit of the good, the bad and the ugly while we stayed in Grong Grong.
The location was wonderful and sitting by the campfire at night looking at the stars was just the best. The flies during the day would pick you up and carry you away. Australia!
We spent a day wandering around the nearest town of Narrandera (Nerandipity to Pete). Such a lovely little town with information boards on every corner. I love learning about the history of the towns. There is a Royal Dalton Hankinson Memorial Fountain in town, which was donated to the town as a First World War memorial.
It's a Royal Dalton ceramic fountain and only one of two in the world; the other in Pakistan. Sadly in the 1970s some asshole vandalised the fountain but it has been restored. We can't have nice things, can we. I also loved that the local blacksmith would fill in as the dentist!
Night two we cooked damper and stew over the camp fire. Fabulous meal. Unfortunately after dinner Ruby was quite ill so we had to do a dash to the after hours vet in Leeton. Gave her a couple of jabs and sent us on our way.
Our last day in Grong Grong was Julie's birthday. Hooray! And we finally got a group shot in our jackets. That was the good news. Bad news was Ruby was worse and admitted to the vet hospital. The rest of the crew went successfully koala spotting whist Graham and I spent the day in Leeton. We had a birthday dinner for Jules at the Grong Grong Royal Hotel (the Grongy). I love the story of this pub. A hundred odd of the local community all put in $5k each to purchase and renovate the pub, so now they have a community pub to share. It was pretty busy on the Wednesday night we were there and the food and atmosphere was great. A real feel good story. And the final story to top the night off was Pete managing to get another truckie to blow his airhorns. They must think he is a very large kid!
Ruby had to stay a couple of nights in the hospital. They did an endoscopy and were expecting to do surgery after a couple of nights, so everyone else headed off to Echuca and Graham and I shifted the van to Leeton to be closer to her. It was a very sad couple of nights without her. But life doesn't stop lifeing when you travel.Read more