Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Still at Bourkes Bend

A lazy day today, rained last night but turned into a nice day. Decided to try my hand at Cod fishing only to find out I left the reels on the garage workbench, and to make matters worse we saw at least 3 fish jump in the river and heard many more. We went for a drive in the afternoon to Bourkes Bend 1 & 2 not as pretty as the one we are staying at and saw some local kangaroo's who blended into the bush and where hard to see then back to the van for a camp oven stew for tea. Heading towards Rutherglen tomorrow.




Morning on the Murray.






Bourkes Bend


Left Deniliquin on Tuesday and travelled via Finley and Tocumwal, both nice small country towns. It was then onto Cobrum in Victoria where we decided to explore some riverside camps, we reviewed the spots in both Camps 6 and Wiki Camps and we decided to have a look at Bourkes Bend No 3. It turned out to be a nice spot so we decided to stay, probably for a couple of days. There are a few other campers here and some where packing up as we arrived. The weather is overcast with a few light showers, good book reading time. we had same lovely walks a long the river edge Chris was surprise that it was a sandy bottom. we saw a couple having a wash in the river which we thought would be so cold . So Chris had to take her shoes off and have a paddle in the Murray to her surprise it was not cold at all.






Sunday, 20 April 2014

Deni Big 4

This is where we stopped in Deni, pretty good park.




Deniliquin Stopover


Well we spent a great time over Easter at Deni, Good Friday was Vicki's 60th, a great day with about 40 people. Weather was ok. Saturday was a easy day plenty of people up town. On Sunday we visited friends of Ian & Vicki for lunch and then went for a cruise on their houseboat up the Edwards river.





Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Easter Trip to Deni

Heading off tomorrow for out first long trip with the new van, looking forward to the free camping.
Garry and Robyn will be with us for the first part of the trip, we will be staying at the Big 4 in Deniliquin while we enjoy the hospitality of Vicki and Ian, Vicki turns the big 60 on Friday.