Camerons The Shed & The Highlander
Travel Blogs from Mildura
The Murray River
... a few interesting places yet to visit.
We stopped for lunch at a lake just outside Mildura (the town we were headed to for our next stop); Lake Cullulleraine has a lovely grassy picnic area so we got the camping chairs out of the boot and made ourselves comfortable for enjoying the scenery. Morgan got the binoculars out as some rather charming parrots were feeding on the ground near us – turns out they were Red Rumped Parrots. ...
We camp by the Murray for a while
... we manage to check out a few of the main features and go down to the wharf on the Darling where the paddle steamers used to dock. There is a great craft shop here and Sheila buys another sheep for the collection! We do some more of the town drive and then head to the Gaol . This was the first gaol designed for Australian conditions and and remains in excellent order.
We spend a good while here exploring all the buildings as well as avoiding the Bikie Gang that had arrived to ...
Mildura
... about the AGM?
The Traders area provides the usual trade stalls and promotional stalls (next 2 AGMs, Mildura tourist info etc). Kevin bought a pair of riding sunglasses and some extenders for his vest (for his ‘big’ moments). I got another patch and had it (and others) sewn onto my vest. I was hoping that there would be a vendor with the new Scala Rider communication system but there wasn’t. There was also a farmers ...
RELAXING BY THE RIVER
... and we didn’t have any success trying to contact them by phone. I had just decided that I was ready for bed when Jackie rang to say that her mobile phone wasn’t working and that she ...
Picking Aubergines.. Horrific job. Liked Mildura
... this farm work. More on this later. We managed to get a job straight away, $18 an hour, starting 7am the next morning, picking aubergines. Can't be that bad - everyone does farm work right?
So why did 3 weeks seem so long? Because I think this job may have aged Lisa & I by about 10 years. The job was agonising - we would cover our bodies in deep heat at 6.30 am, pop paracetamol and ibuprofen before getting there and sit on that depressing mini ...