Where the # are we?? Nagambie lol

Posted 21st Feb 2013

Well we've arrived in Victoria. We left the Yass campsite on the 18th, it was an OK site the noise from the Hume Hwy got a bit too much in the end at about 3 am I was ready to leave but had to wait till morning.  We traveled down the Hume till we got to Gundagai to see the dog on the tuckerbox… it's always much smaller than you remember.  Here is the oldest (probably) poem about the dog:


As i was coming down Conroy's Gap,
I heard a maiden cry:
'There goes Bill the Bullocky,
He's bound for Gundagai.
A better poor old -
Never earned an honest crust,
A better poor old -
Never drug a whip through dust.'

His team got bogged at the Five Mile Creek,
Bill lashed and swore and cried:
'If Nobby don't get me out of this,
I'll tattoo his hide.'
But Nobby strained and broke the yoke
And poked out the leader's eye:
Then the dog s(h)at on the Tucker Box
Five Miles from Gundagai.


We popped into town to do our washing and ate breaky at Australia's oldest running bakery, S said the pies were delicious. Then we headed for Narrandera you wouldn't believe it we found a whole pile of almond trees, so we both picked several bags full, god knows how we will eat them before we get to WA but anyway. At the Narrandera camp S picked some rosehips to make rosehip syrup, got lots of prickles but he say's it's worth it. I finished the apples 7 put in freezer so we don't have to throw them away when we cross the Vic border. Next day we headed off to a tiny little town called Maude there is a pretty weir and you can camp on the river just out of town. No luck fishing though. We left really early in the morning (3am) to see what we could see with the new spot light, saw lots of rabbits, foxes, hares and some sheep. (i didn't know we had hares in aust… learn something new every day) We arrived in Swan Hill very early 6am and had a sleep in the park. It was freezing!!! After our sleep we made breaky on the free bbqs and I cut my fringe i the public toilet -- came out Ok considering they had shut the light off after 7am. So yesterday we arrived at Toolebuc S's home town.  Of course everything has changed, unfortunately all the camp sites that he remembers now have houses on them, but we managed to find a nice site on the Victorian side of the border, lots of trees.. we have to really careful because river reds loose their branches so we made sure we camped where no branches can fall.  I saw lots of carp in the water but we haven't been able to catch any fish.  We'll be off to Bendigo tomorrow.


posted 26th Feb 2013

Well we've been to Bendigo & visited uncle Alec, we camped at Serpentine in 2 different places, trying to catch yabbies.  Unfortunately they're not running this year so we only caught a couple, got lots of shrimp so I will make some special fried rice later down the track.  We bought a new freezer to cart all the extra food we have been finding. Today we camped at Nagambie great campsite if you don't mind all the rubbish! Still lots of shade and we need that to sort out the trailer. We found a wild fig tree & some quince trees growing on the side of the road. Most of the figs were ripe so I just blanched them & put in the freezer, got quite a few unripe figs so trying a Greek recipe for candied figs… will let you know how it turns out. http://mamastaverna.com/baby-fig-spoon-sweet-sikalaki-gliko/ I've never tasted quince before, they're yucky raw but apparently nice when cooked.. http://www.burkesbackyard.com.au/factsheets/Food-Health-and-Nutrition/2UE-Quince-recipes-and-growing-tips/6011I'll let you know what they're like.

We are now slowly heading down to Melbourne to visit a Bad Al then we will set off for Ballarat. We only have 1 month to go, so will have to get a bit of a move on if we're ever to get to Cameron's Corner… cheers :o)