Starting the journey south
Trip Start
Jun 22, 2007
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Trip End
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Deniliquin,
Australia
Friday, July 20, 2007
This highway follows an old stock route and is known as The Long Paddock. It stretches from Echuca (in Victoria) to White Cliffs (93km beyond Wilcannia) where it just seems to end. All along the route are places where they have erected boards with stories from the old days along the stock route. Unfortunately, towing a van makes it almost impossible to pull off into what quite often looked like muddy boggy tracks.
The countryside south of Hay is just about the flattest you could find. Nothing to the horizon and just the black tarmac stretching off into the distance
Deniliquin - the Ute Capital
. The land did not look like it could be farmed, although cattle would certainly find some feed along the stock route. Lots of small scrubby bushes and uninviting dead grass stretched for kilometers.As we neared Deniliquin more and more trees appeared and it could be seen we were entering an irrigated area.
The caravan park is very nice - neat, tidy and the ensuite is clean. The sites are a bit small and a bit more challenging to get into with trees placed just so you can't get the van around them, but a couple of goes had it in place.
The rest of the day was spent getting set up, and driving into town to have a look around and find out where everything is. Dinner was meat balls in tomato sauce - a good old fashioned recipe learned from Mum - tasty.
