Cobram Central Motor Inn

Okay, so I think the official word for last night's experience was 'oops'. Why oops, you ask? Let me explain... Yesterday I was staying in Cobram. Cobram is a tiny little town on the Murray River, which is, of course, in drought a the moment, and in desperate need of water. The Murray River suffers various ailments due to lack of flow (which I'm...

Okay, so I think the official word for last night's experience was 'oops'. Why oops, you ask? Let me explain...
Yesterday I was staying in Cobram. Cobram is a tiny little town on the Murray River, which is, of course, in drought a the moment, and in desperate need of water. The Murray River suffers various ailments due to lack of flow (which...

Well, the countdown is finally on, we are on our final week of fruit picking, and we are so so glad! The last two weeks we have been picking peaches which have been ok apart from the huge spiders which keep popping up, just as we are climbing up to the top rung of the ladder (which is high up....very high, especially when one is scared of height...

Well, its been another crazzzy week in Cobram! I can't believe we have been here for 8 weeks already, the countdown is definitely on to leave this place and hit the Grand Prix in Melbourne on 29th March! The working week has been a pretty short one, we had Sat, Sun and Monday off for 'Labour day' and, in true Cobram style, we celebrated this fre...

Week 7 has been much the same as week 6 in Fruit Picking land! I think the highlight of our week this week has been that a snake entered the premises and tried to sneak into someone's room! Luckily he seen it and chased it off, there I was thinking that snakes would be too scared to come anywhere near us...a family of redback Spiders has also be...

Well, week 6 in fruit picking land hasn't really been that eventful, Stevie has been back fruit picking with me as they don't need him on tractors for a couple of days, it's nice to have the company again after a lonely few days stuck in pear trees! We've been trying to get at least 6 bins per day (3 tonnes of pears!) so we can make some decent ...

It has been hotter here than Brisbane!!! The trip down was uneventful and really rather boring. THe first night we stayed at Moree and had a swim in the artesian pool at the motel. We wish we had stayed at one of the others though as there was a wedding on and from about midnight until 3am there was a group of people standing outside out room ta...

Jenny had promised Fraser that she would bake a cake in the morning so of course as soon as he woke this morning Fraser went hunting for Jenny. Whilst the cake was being cooked, Tony took Darcy, Guy and Craig on a tour of the property (Guy later called it his 'private farm tour') on quad bikes. Tony drove one with Darcy and Guy on the back whils...

Today we went on a drive to see the countryside around here. We started off in the morning thinking our venture would be in vain as the fog was very thick, in fact I stopped specifically to take some photos of some horses grazing because it looked "atmospheric" in the fog. As we progressed along the road toward Finley, we gradually out of fog in...

First of all sorry to everyone who has been waiting for another entry to find out what we have been up to. We have been extremely busy and not been able to get to a decent computer for ages but I know that is no excuse. Well going from memory Colette and I stayed with her godparents for a while and then had to find some work to raise funds to ke...