Beechworth:
Beechworth is one of Victoria's best preserved former gold mining towns, situated in the north-east of the state. The commercial center extends along Camp street and Ford Street, presenting an almost unbroken series of elegant buildings and historic shop-fronts, many of which date back to the 19th century. The post office was built in 1869, the former Bank of Victoria (now a gold jewellery store) dates back to 1857, and there are several historic hotels and churches located in the town centre
Arrived at Mt Sambell
CP Friday around 11am set up, prepared the fire for our first “camp oven roast”
and a fine meal it was, potatoes, pumpkin and a marinated roast started to
prepare the gravy only for Linda to realise it was 3 years out of date and only
purchased in recent weeks but regardless of the gravy the meal was “GREAT” saved
the rest for lunch on Saturday. Sat by the fire and watched the late comers come
in and set up in the dark etc, some arrived as late as 10pm
Saturday: Woke to
cook the normal bacon, eggs, and tomatoes with toast how good is this camping
caper. Took a walk in to town. Linda need to get some new glasses as in her
drunken state last night she managed to step on them and broke them completely.
Arrived back at
camp where Hutchie + Wendy & Malcolm + Nikki arrived early afternoon, more
wood for the fire was ordered and a meal on the Webber of Tandori chicken pizza
+ garlic bread another great feed stayed up late drinking around the fire as
you do. During the night Linda wakes me to tell me she needs to be “sick” sometime
later she made the call to go outside (around 2am) and bring up her dinner, she
blamed the little cake she had, sure!!!!!
Sunday: visited
the Beechworth Jail for a guided tour, some interesting stories from the guide around
the inmates, executions and even Neds Mother and her 2 day old Daughter were inmates
at the prison. Back to the bakery to buy lunch and returned to the CP to
consume possibly the best sausage rolls ever
Spent the
afternoon layzing around camp and a few km walk around some bush land from the
CP quick dinner then off for the night tour of the “mental asylum” Lindas has
been on at me for years to do this so we went!!! All 6 of us went was to the
mental asylum quite
interesting the history but would have preferred to stay at camp and a have a
few drinks around the fire. Bed by 11pm
Sunday: We got a
way early but needed to open the camper up as it was little damp glad we did as
it was a lot wetter than I thought another great decision otherwise mold starts to form from packing up wet
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| Caravan Park |
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| Caravan park |
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| Caravan park |
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| Home sweet home, for the next 3 days |
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| Lake Sambell |
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| Camp |
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| Linda cooking, oh no!!!!!! |
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| Bush walk around the park |
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| Bush walk around the park |
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| Getting ready for the night |
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| BRILLIANT !!!! |
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| Delicious !!!! |
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| Pizza and bread, how hard is this |
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| Linda having breakfast on the way home, she loves her MACCAS pancakes |
