Avoca spontaneous weekend.

After booking our caravan in for a product recall service in Maryborough, the weekend finally arrived. Earlier in the week we made the decision to combine this trip with actually using our van as it needed to be brought here anyway. We packed up the van Wednesday night, both worked Thursday and left home Friday at 7:15am. Whilst walking around in Maryborough waiting for the van, we decided to head across to Avoca and stay in a free camp on the river, which happened to be in the middle of town. It's a pretty place and not too noisy. A short walk across a road was the RV park with a toilet we could access.
As we set up the Van on Friday afternoon we discovered 2 annoying things; 1. The pop up roof was stuck, so we could only pop it half way up at one end and 2. The caravan toilet wasn't flushing. Cue a large sigh and some unskilled owners trying to fix the problems.
When it became clear we were not up to the task we just decided to enjoy the day and settled down for a G&T and dinner.

On Saturday we worked out that it was a failed gas strut causing the roof issue so we (meaning Jamie) disengaged the strut and up popped the roof. But no such luck with fixing the toilet.

We took a drive out to the state Forrest and a look out which was a lovely view of grape vines and mountains. We had lunch at the Blue Pyrenees winery and then headed to the Mount Avoca (organic) winery for a tasting. Some lovely wines and a fantastic lunch in a pretty patio setting.

Both of us have work to do and neither of us are making much headway. Thank goodness today is nowhere near as hot as yesterday.Read more