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snapper49


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Well we are off on a 3 week tour of Victoria starting this coming saturday 22nd Oct

At 9 amm 3 vans will depart Whyalla and head for Overland Corner,  bush  camp sat night

Sunday depart for Swan Hill where we are booked into the Pental Island Caravan Park and Holiday Farm  until the following Thursday then its off to Euchca for a few days then down through central Victoria to Ballarat Some excursions into Melbourne are planned and I have to fly to Sydney for a day for a meeting

From Ballarat we will be moving onto a farm for a few days as one of our crew has rellies there

Will keep you informed of our travels

I will be tail end charlie so look out for Grey Nomad sticker on my bumper on the van



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Sounds fantastic, enjoy and stay safe...

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Did a similar trip last year and early this year, only there were two vans.

You will have a great time - enjoy biggrin



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Nice one snapper.
Are you coming to Greens Lake ? Its not too far from Echuca they tell me.

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nice to be so pre organised. I do no know where I will be next week or what I will be doing. But then again that's how we live now.

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hopefully you will get to Greens lake and meet up with some other nomads, anytime from the 4th Nov we will be there
Ken

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Had a look at green lake on google earth
where abouts is the camping area as i couldnt pick it? thanks

 

ok I think I found it about halfway down on the western side

no campers visible on the day that the pic was taken



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Check out the overland corner pub. Very neat place. For sale btw

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On various trips have stopped at the Overland Corner Hotel for a cooling ale.

It is a great outback pub, one Shogun should have on his list to visit.

There is a mark up on the wall of the Pub, above the door from memory, showing where the flood in the mid 1950s peaked.

Amazing when you look around at the flat, but beautiful, countryside over to the river about a kilometre or so away.



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Left Whyalla this morning at 9 am Arrived Overland Corner 3 pm Yabbie nets out and catching a few
had a slow trip from port augusta to port pirie due to the stragglers from the solar challenge
Tomorrow should be in Swsan Hill

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Snapper. Greens Lake is halfway between Echuca and Bendigo. Turn off at Elmore and go about 24mks, then turn left just after Corop.
There are a couple of grey nomads there at the moment and depending on when you come through, there could be more.

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Three of us under the bridge at Mildura on sunday afternoon after a run from overland corner

we camped at overland corner sat night where put in few yabbie nets

we were rewarded with a yabbie each for breaky



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Finally got myself a murray cod biggrin

we are now at swan hill until thursday then moving on to Euchca

Greens lake is on the cards for a quick stop over

we will see how we go



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Visited something special today

Was the flying boat museum at Lake Boga about 12k east of Swan Hill



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Does anyone know what murray cod are like to eat?
I'm not keen on fresh water fish, but the cod is a bit elusive, so I was just wondering if anyone here has eaten any.

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Can be the biggest fish in the murray system. Bit muddy from my experience.. Redfin are the preferred eating fish. But that goes back 50 yrs before they started stocking programs. Gee, its been a long time.

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Cruising Granny wrote:

Does anyone know what murray cod are like to eat?
I'm not keen on fresh water fish, but the cod is a bit elusive, so I was just wondering if anyone here has eaten any.

 From memory a very fatty fish. I didnt like them, like Chi Chi  preferred  redfin, and freshwater catfish is alright too.



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All 3 of us nw in Ballarat
I was to fly to Sydney from melbourne today and return for a meeting but qantas put that plan to bed
Now I have to wait for a full refund
Weather in Ballarat has been crappy to say the least
Have had a look at the shops Monday we will start doing the tourist thingy

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snapper49 wrote:

All 3 of us nw in Ballarat
I was to fly to Sydney from melbourne today and return for a meeting but qantas put that plan to bed
Now I have to wait for a full refund
Weather in Ballarat has been crappy to say the least
Have had a look at the shops Monday we will start doing the tourist thingy

 Where abouts in Ballarat are you staying?



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sorry gubby didnt see your post until now

We stayed in the welcome stranger

Have been staying on afarm at cavendish and are now on our way home back to whyalla

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