Day 3 (97)

♥️ Valentine’s Day ♥️
Dads heavenly birthday 🤍🕊️

24 Km Ebden to Tallangatta Vic
Sunny and blue skies with high 30☀️

🏡Home for a couple of nights
Tallangatta Showgrounds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
$25 pn power & water,
showers, toilets, dump point
Flatish spots, some shade
Lovely caretakers Mel and Lee
Next to rail trail
Optus reception

🏃🏼5km Park Run
🚶🏼5km walk

👍🏻Tallangatta- most friendliest park run so far 🥇
👎🏻Live music wasn’t on after we had walked to the pub ☹️

Some very mixed feelings today 😕
Thinking about the holes that are left when those you love are no longer around, whilst trying to enjoy and take advantage of everything the day has in store

Another early start with another beautiful sunrise 🌅 this time to move on and head into Tallangatta in time for Parkrun
And we are so glad we did, it has to be THE most friendliest Parkrun we’ve been to so far 🏆.
Everyone was so friendly and were welcomed to join them for breakfast at a lovely local cafe - The Yellow Picket Fence which did fantastic coffee and breakfast wraps (but everything looked awesome) ☕️
Amazingly we met people who had relocated from our own neighbourhood, including someone who had previously run with PTR- small world 🌎
We learnt ALOT about the trails, hikes and camps around the area 🥰 and the Seagull is already planning his next trail run adventure 🏃

Once set up at camp we went off to explore more of the area, this time by car and a 90km scenic drive around Lake Hume 🚙
The lake is fed by the Mitta Mitta river from the south and the Murray from the North 🏞️
Tallangatta is known as the ‘the town that moved’ as it was relocated to its current spot in 1956 to allow for the expansion of the lake.
So our first stop was the site of Old Tallangatta, then we took Lake Road to Bethanga, and couldn’t resist a stop at the Hotel for a drink 🍻and chat with their resident alpaca🦙 . Then onto Kurrajong Gap Lookout, through Belbridge and over the Bethanga Bridge. Somewhere along the journey we must have crossed into NSW as we crossed back into Victoria on our return via the Murray Valley Highway.

Back at camp we enjoyed a lovely cheese platter 🧀🥖 with a glass of sparkling red 🍷, perfect romantic dinner for two 😜💕
Followed by what would have been a lovely evening lakeside stroll through Tallangatta but was just a stroll due to the lack of water😜, but still the sunset over the hills was beautiful 🌅
On our way back we popped into the pub (only 1 currently open) and was disappointed to find no life music as advertised (perhaps they all go home early in the country 🤷🏼‍♀️) but despite that it was a very ‘interesting’ experience 🤪Read more