Colac Colac Caravan Park, Corroyong Vic

Location:

ColacColac Caravan Park Clack is located six kilometres from Corryong and is located on the Nariel Creek. 

Corryong is a country town located in the far north-eastern corner of Victoria, around 120 kilometres east of Wodonga  and near the pristine upper reaches of the Murray River. It is famed for its picturesque scenery and unspoilt natural attractions including rivers, mountains and forests.

The main road through Corryong is the Murray Valley Highway which is a wide boulevard with sections lined by deciduous trees whose leaves erupt into vibrant colours during the autumn.

A good overview of Corryong and its immediate surroundings can be enjoyed from Playles Lookout which is accessed via Back Thowgla Road.

Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson wrote "The Man From Snowy River" which captured the heart of the nation and tells the story of a horseback pursuit in the mountains of the Great Dividing Range. It is claimed that the inspiration for the character in Paterson's poem was local stockman Jack Riley (born in 1841), and his grave can be found in Corryong's cemetery via the entrance off Parish Lane.

Left early Saturday morning to meet up with Hutchie + Wendy & Jamie + Fee @ Maccas for breakfast on the Hume @ Glenrowan Arrived at the caravan park around noon to find Scott + Sue & Geoff +Kay there already setup from the previous night meet some new “swaggers’ and set off in the afternoon for a drive up to where there is a hang gliding launch pad just outside of town, half way up got stuck in a stretch of loose stones and gravel tried a number of times to go fwd without success at this stage Linda bailed on me and some of the group helped out – the solution was taking more air out of the tyres and a hard right foot SUCCESS !!!! made it up to a flat area where I picked up Linda for the rest of the trip, a stunning look out with great views, well worth the effort, back to camp for “nibbles” a quick dinner and a  few drinks the off to bed.

Sunday bacon and eggs for breakfast at around 9am the others went off for another drive we stayed back as we needed to sort out the annex walls and put up the ensuite as we had not done either since we had it fixed, alas !!! Another issue with the zippers that will need to be returned and fixed hopefully back in time for our next trip

We went for a drive to the Murray 1 Visitor Center, adjacent to Murray 1 Power Station and went on a tour of the facility arrived back at camp for a more afternoon nibbles, dinner and more drinks around the fire. Linda latter in the night reenacted her drinking through a shewee that certainly had most in fits of laughter, at this stage thought she would be better in bed but NOT Linda!!! we got to bed around Midnight

Monday Linda and a few of the others set of for a 7km walk into town I cleaned up camp and waited for the call to come and pick her up, arrived at the local bakery where everyone was eating cakes, sausage rolls, and Linda treated herself  to a nice little chocolate “hedgehog”  as a reward. Around lunch time we decided to do a self-drive tour (from info we got at the local info center) around the area visited Bluff Falls, Embery’s Lookout on top of Mt Mittamatite (had to wait a few minutes for the cows to get up and move) and finished the day off at the Man From Snowy River Museum back to camp afternoon tea drinks, then more drinks around the fire and to bed relatively early around 10pm (Linda was not up to another drinking night)

Up Monday packed and home around 12:30, another great weekend away with old friends a really enjoyable weekend 

The drive in to the park

A creek runs through the back og camp, we camped about 10m from this

afternoon drinks under the tree's

yep, on the ipad 

our camp

Park entrance 

View from the road, out side the CP

Creek in park

Creek /park

The group we camped with 

first time we put the awning and ensuite up 

Masters Landing, Gunbower

Getting there

About 30km from Eucha along the Murray Valley highway towards Kerang, Right into Torrumbarry Weir road (signposted –mobile phone tower on the left) travel along to the weir entrance is on the left and another 3km to Masters landing site a number of camp areas along the river’s edge all along this road camp grounds are signposted.

Set off from home for another weekend  we got about 750m from home then remembered we may not have packed the fly-spray so a quick turnaround back and noticed that the garage door was left open from when we pulled the trailer out (good decision) as these would have stayed open all weekend otherwise

Arrived mid-morning and proceeded to set up the camper and make home for 2 nights right along the river bank, set up chairs and watched the world go by, an afternoon of dips, cheeses, snacks followed by watching around 20 Kangaroos coming down the river edge in the afternoon for a drink. BBQ dinner of chicken and salad followed by a number of drinks under the stars, limited internet coverage which was annoying Linda as you got to have internet when you’re camping!!!

Woke Saturday morning customary bacon, eggs,tomato and toast cooked for breakfast on the Webber. Had some issues with both fridges (one for food and one for Linda’s grog) cutting out due to low voltage from the batteries turned everything off and tried to get the solar back into the batteries and charge up so there was enough to keep both fridges going. Early afternoon the temp reached around 36deg with only 1 fridge working (we made the decision the drinks were more important than the food) so we kept this fridge on power.

Set up the new screen annex wall that we had to have replaced due to a problem with the zipper when we first brought the camper, this worked quite well now and will be a great addition in enabling to have set up with no fly’s around all the time under the annex.

We decided around1pm that with the temp getting hotter and the power issue would be better just packing up and heading home. Packed everything up probably in the hottest part of the day with no shade covering the camper got home around 4pm unpacked.
Sunday set up the solar to the camper and is charging at a great rate from 11.7v to 12.3 in around 2 hours, now spend the day fully charging the batteries ready for Aust day weekend

Masters Landing, Gunbower – a bit of history (Im not into history but a fascinating read)

Camper set up, fire pit + tables 

the view 

Camper

Out door dinning 

Linda with her new hat

Lindas new drink of choice

getting ready to spend the afternoon snacking by the river 

Sunset

Masters House on sunset

info on the owners of the Hut 

info on the owners of the Hut