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    Hanging Rock Winery

    25 juillet 2019, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

    After lunch we drove to Hanging Rock Winery. We tasted quite a few wines here and purchased 4 wines, lets hope they taste as good when we get them home.

    This winery was quite large and had some very nice but very expensive sculptures scattered around.

    It is now time to head back to Kyneton, we drove through some small townships but nothing really warranted a stop. We continued back to our bushland resort and now having cheese and crackers we purchased along the road in Warrnambool a few days ago.    En savoir plus

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    Great Stupa

    26 juillet 2019, Australie ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

    This morning we left Kyneton and will be driving to Numurkah through Bendigo.

    Once in Bendigo we visited the Great Stupa, only because we wanted to see if it compared to the ones we saw in Tibet. I can say without hesitation do not waste your time to visit. The Stupa is not finished and looks more like an office block at the moment. When finished I still don't think it will be worth a visit. The Victoria Government is funding the project at $2.5 million and will be finished in 2020.

    We then went into Bendigo city and found a cute little lane called Chancery. We had a nice Spanish lunch before getting back on the road.    En savoir plus

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    Home for the week

    26 juillet 2019, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    Back on the road this time it is my turn to drive. The country side is so pretty along the way cattle, sheep and alpaca all grazing on the lush green fields.

    Now in Numurkah stopped at the local IGA before heading to Lakeside Country Club our home for the week. This is another place from our holiday club. This unit has also been designed badly. I really do not understand why these places do not have storage in the bedroom or the bathroom. These places are timeshare and you book for a week. We have taken over the second bedroom beds as our walk in wardrobe.En savoir plus

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    Lakeside Country Club

    27 juillet 2019, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

    The activity for today is planning the week, catching up on computer work and getting to know the area.

    This morning we were greeted with birds, not kangaroos. After breakfast some research on what Numurkah has to offer and what we can do during our week here.

    Once we had worked out our program for the week it was time to explore the resort. It is very good for young and old and I think that summertime would be fabulous. The resort has indoor and outdoor swimming pools, 2 playgrounds, squash and tennis courts, volley ball, basketball, mini golf, a large outdoor domino set, a teenage area with pool tables and an adult room with a lovely fireplace, large TV and more pool tables. Set right next to a lake where you can go canoeing and even fish. The resort even set the fishing rods up for you to try and catch what ever is in the lake. It would be great for large family holidays.    En savoir plus

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    Not so Wetlands

    27 juillet 2019, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    After lunch we went for a walk to a local attraction near the resort as the description sounded great and the front desk staff also said it was a nice place to visit.
    This is the write up about the Wetlands in a brochure: "Located east of the resort, just a short walk down the road, there is a variety of wildlife to be observed from the viewing platforms and boardwalks. Enjoy the wonderful diversity of the wildlife and woodland."

    Once at the start of the Wetlands this is the description.

    "Kinnairds Wetland is part of a larger natural wetland (a prior stream depression). Covering an area of 93 hectares of natural and constructed wetlands, Kinnairds Wetland is part of a scheme designed to provide major regional drainage benefits for land in the Muckatah Catchment. The wetland is fed by flows from the Muckatah Surface Water Management Scheme, which has a 600 km² catchment, beginning in Yarrawonga. The natural and constructed areas of the wetland act as a retarding basin. This aids in filtering sediments and nutrients, and minimises the rate of flows entering the Broken Creek to the south, which eventually flows into the Murray River in the Barmah Forest".

    However, what we saw was 1 bird, a small creek and mostly dry river beds and dead trees and grasses. Not really a wetland. When we left the area we actally saw more bird life in the land near our resort.

    We then drove into town for some groceriers. It was like a ghost town almost everything was shut even though it was before 3pm on Saturday afternoon. One supermarket was open but I only purchased things for dinner tonight and breaky tomorrow, as it was really expensive. We will be out tomorrow and I am sure I will be able to find a Woolworths or Coles were I can finish shopping at a decent proce. I don't usually worry about how much things are but this was really noticeable. The tiny tins of baked beans for example were nearly $2 a can, tomatos were $9.99 a kilo and they were horrible, the stawberries were Ok at $3,99 a punnet.

    Back at the resort for the day, our activites start tomorrow.    En savoir plus

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    Wine barrels inside a distillery on the main street.Carol couldn't resist having some free fairy floss.

    On our way to Echuca

    28 juillet 2019, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

    Today we drove to Echuca which is about an hour away.

    There was a bit of fog but it cleared as soon as we entered the Echuca City Limits.

    The reason for driving to Echuca was that they have a Winter Blues Festival. Today was the last day, not that we had heard of any of the bands but it was really interesting walking around a small country listening to some really good bands and soloists. Pubs, cafes, resturants, small streets and the main street had stages set up where you could just stand and listen or take a seat and have a meal. The first laneway we entered was called Hopwood Lane and as there was a very good band playing we stopped and listened for a while before contining to the main street.En savoir plus

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    All about Henry Hopwood

    28 juillet 2019, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    In John's research he came across the Hopwood name on a few things. Apparently Henry Hopwood was the founder of Echuca.

    Henry Hopwood 1813 – 1 January 1869 was an English convict who established the town of Echuca in Victoria, Australia.

     He was arrested in 1834 for receiving stolen rolls of silk, and sentenced to 14 years' transportation to Van Diemen's Land. A persuasive and manipulative character, within a year of arriving in the colony, Hopwood had been appointed as a police constable.

    However, he often found himself in trouble, mainly due to dalliances with women, and in 1839, he was sentenced to two years' servitude at the Port Arthur penal settlement for 'aiding and abetting the abduction of his master's daughter'. He was eventually released and, in 1846, granted a full pardon after having served 12 years of his original sentence. During his time as a convict, Henry met Marth Bolton, a free woman formerly of Liverpool, Lancashire and with her had a daughter, Alice Bolton Hopwood, born on the 4 January 1844 at Morven, Tasmania.

    Hopwood migrated to the fledgling colony of Port Phillip in Melbourne where he worked his way north to the Murray River in 1848. Here he found work in a tallow plant, boiling down animal carcasses to extract their fat and oils, eventually becoming foreman. By 1850 the shrewd Hopwood noted the increasing numbers of drovers and farmers in the area and used his savings to build both a hotel and a punt.

     He charged a small fee for river crossings and profited from drinkers at his hotel. By 1858 he had almost single-handedly expanded the lonely riverbank site into a small town, complete with a pontoon bridge, newspaper, school, warehouses, and vineyards. The following year Hopwood constructed the Bridge Hotel, a more stylish double-storey brick building that still stands today.

    I guess in our free time ( ha ha) we need to do some research to find out if we are related.    En savoir plus

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    Paddle Steamer on the Murray

    28 juillet 2019, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    The Murray river runs through Echuca so we had to do a cruise down the river. We decided on the The Alexander Arbuthnot which was one of the last steamers built on the Murray River during the riverboat trade.

     She was built at Koondrook in 1923 to tow barges carrying logs from the forest to the Arbuthnot Sawmills for some years until the 1940's when she was sold to charcoal producers in the Barmah Forest. During WW2 the PS Alexander Arbuthnot lay idle and in 1947 sank at her moorings. In 1972 she was raised by a group of Shepparton volunteers. The Alexander Arbuthnot was bought by the City of Echuca in 1989 for restoration at the Port.

    We steamed up the Murray and back down for about an hour with NSW on one side and Vic on the other. It was another intertesting experience as the captain explained the history of the Murray back in the 1870's.

    At the port there is also a discovery centre where you can get even more details about the paddle steamers and Henry Hopwood.    En savoir plus

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    Tongala Historic Murals

    28 juillet 2019, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    Driving to Echuca I noticed a sign which said "Historic Murals" so on the way back we went to a small town called Tongala . On walls around town they have a number of murals painted by local artist Murray Ross, which show the history of the dairy industry and Tongala.

    The drive home was a little different to this morning you could see the road as there was no more fog.

    Back at our resort waiting for the baked chicken in the oven to cook and then relaxing in front of the TV after another busy day of sightseeing.    En savoir plus

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    Wet day in Numurkah

    29 juillet 2019, Australie ⋅ 🌧 12 °C

    A wet day in Numurkah today so I made cup cakes in the pie maker for morning tea.

    The remainder of the morning was computer work. These slide shows are never ending. I am currently working on our Vietnam Cambodia trip which requires 2 hours of music. So trying to work out the music ,download and upload is very time consuming and trying but we are getting there. 1 hour to go, I am now up to Cambodia.

    After a few hours and lunch we thought fresh air would be good. The rain has stopped but still cold. John found a winery close by so we popped in the car for a 8 min drive, I checked Google along the only to find closed Monday and Tuesday. So we turned around and went into town for petrol. We are now back at the computer.    En savoir plus