Cumberland River Holiday Park, GOR Vic

Weekend spent at Cumberland Rover Holiday Park on the "Great Ocean Road" in Vic,

Arrived on the Thursday just after lunch to set up along the river where Hutchie + Wendy had already arrived and were setting up afternoon of nibble, quick dinner and lots of laughs and drinks to midnight a great evening was had

Woke on the Friday to a cloudy/overcast day went over to the beach but was blocked off due to damage to steps leading down to the beach being “unsafe”, just a lazy day around camp Malcolm + Nikki arrived around 2pm and set up camp, Ventured into Lorne in the afternoon needing to get some diesel for the heater, we used it the previous night for the first time and absolutely sensational, great investment and will increase our camping season by some months. Back to camp for nibbles, dinner the some hours around the camp fire with wood brought via Hutchie after stopping to pick up $60 for hale a cubic metre compared to $20 a bag sold at the park

Saturday was the pick of the day’s great weather tested out the new 250w solar panels and worked great over to the beach for a walk around (ignored the signs as most had done” then into Lorne for a ice-cream back to camp to prepare the “evening combined meal” and a “chris kringle event where we all brought a present either a $20 limit or something regifted ! The park was filling up quickly until a little storm hit around 6pm where a number of there tents and caps were torn apart and just about everyone who arrived during the afternoon had left after it. Dinner was a success with the weather and meal was enjoyed by all.

Bed around 10pm storm during the night with heavy rain and wind fortunately had cleared by morning with sunshine to dry out the camper packed up then was hit by another shower that lasted a few minutes very lucky we packed when we did otherwise we would have had to wait until it dried out again. 3.5hr drive home from another great weekend away

White Cliff's & Silverton Outback NSW

A week’s camping in Outback NSW with a few of our camping friends Malcolm & Nikki, Hutchie & Wendy, Vicki & Ug, and met up with Keith & Bronny. This trip started at a previous trip early in the year and developed into a week-long journey through outback NSW, travelled over 2300kms with the camper and towed over 100kms of corrugated roads, dust storms, countless sheep, goats, kangaroos, cows seen and many skeletons of animals along the trip where they were hit by a car/truck or may have just died because of the drought

Travelled through Deniliquin, Hay, Ivanhoe, Wilcannia, White Cliffs, Broken Hill, Silverton, Wentworth, Mildura, Sea Lake, Home

Wednesday 31^st Oct

Up early to meet at Maccas Eucha for the drive to white cliffs, lunch stop at Ivanhoe NSW and a drive of around 100kms on gravel and corrugated road, arrived at white cliffs around 4:30pm at a temp of around 40deg HOT. Problem with the fridge not working and needed to get some ice just in case (eventually all sorted) and some left-over ice for the 12v evap cooler !!! set up and a few drinks around the camp with a “Halloween” theme

Thursday 1^st Nov

Around 30 deg by 9am and off on the “White cliff bus tour” operated by Wendy’s brother Rob a tour of around 4 hrs on and off the bus visiting the local cemetery, Opal mines, a underground house, undergroundmotel, solar project, and the local general store for lunch and other local attractions very informative of the area back to camp few beers in the afternoon heat then off the pub for dinner back and a few more drinks

Friday 2^nd Nov

Drive from White Cliffs to Silverton through a few dust storms and a short break at Wilcannia, on the banks of the Darling River ( sorry sight no water flow at all) arriving early afternoon @ Penrose Park – Silverton, set up and a relaxing afternoon/evening of doing nothing.

Saturday 3^rd Nov

Off the Broken Hill to explore the town, coffee, tour of the mine sight and miner’s monument, picked up some food at Coles the back to camp ready for the afternoon a few drinks temp cooler then White Cliffs and off to the Silverton Hotel for dinner

Sunday 4^th Nov

Short drive to Silverton Cemetery then off to the ‘Silvertonmine Tour” with scones then to the RFD exhibition and tour of the facilities in Broken Hill and followed by a milkshake at a 50s themed milk bar called “Bells” then on the way home drove into town for a look around

  

Monday 5^th

Goal tour, a few art gallrys in town found the local donkeys wondering around town, beer at the pub back to camp for afternoon tea then of the Mundi Mundi lookout for the sunset (and not disappointed) had been overcast all day but a great sunset to watch back to camp dinner and a few drinks. Around 2:30am hit with an almighty storm, thunder. Lightning and rain most of our camp were up sorting things out and pulling annexes down lasted a few hours but camper went very well 

Tuesday 6^th

Packed up and off by 10am stopping at Wentworth NSW @Junction Park where the Darling river and Murray river join up looked for something to eat (small town or we missed the main street!) but stopped at Mildura instead then home via Sea Lake