Ok then I admit it, I am still at Greens Lake, guilty as charged but it has been so good here I am reluctant to leave but I will be leaving this week, promise, maybe I shouldnt promise though, you will have to wait until next week to find out for sure. In the mean time you can ring ########## or text ######## to cast your vote.

A couple of personal things have happened back in my home life, one good and one bad but I didn't make it to either so I will catch up with family and friends on my return home.

Poor kiwi-as and kiwi raindow have been in dry dock and stranded at Greens Lake without their car for quite some time, Brandt rang Tuesday afternoon to see if the car was ready and was told Wednesday so I took him in to Shepparton to pick up the car, however he was told on arrival they found something else wrong so Brandt told them to fix it. Well, what to do now, so we headed off and both had a spend up didn't we.

I got some outside matting for under my awning and a new step as I didn't really like the CV slide out step fitted and what a difference the new one has made. We both got a couple off additives for our Webber Baby Qs to make things easier. It was then decided to go to the SPC outlet, something was wrong though, I didnt really need to go and Brandt was the same but somehow we thought the other one did, I blame the heat for the confusion. Never mind alls well that ends well so in other words we went to Shepparton to pick up the car and came back to the lake with half of Shepparton and NO car, mmmmm.

Its been rather hot here at the lake and we have had  quite a few low to mid 30s and Thursday got to 40+ so I was a bit, shall I say, buggered as I dont cope well with it being too hot or being in the sun for too long so kept out of the sun as much as possible and cooled off in the lake each night before going to bed. I don't venture out into the lake much during the day due to the sun and I also dont want to frighten away all the great people here with shock.

All here at the lake had a farewell Thursday night for John (yeoeleven) as he left Friday morning for the next leg of his journey, Tassie. Yep you guessed it the famous PAV made another appearance along with some fruit cake, well it was only supper!

Friday started hot already at 7.00am and was heading to mid 30s again.

Kiwi-as got his car back but needs to get a little electrical job done so they are just about ready for the next leg of their journey.

Saturday started with the locals arriving early armed with ski boats and jet skis in readiness for our weekend entertainment, oh, ok then and their fun. I noticed it wasnt as busy as the last two weekends though and more family groups, all were well behaved but there was a little noise later in the night but not too bad. They were young groups and we were all young once.

Strangely Sunday was the same as Saturday with locals. Tonight is the big Kiwi-as Camp Oven Stew again with all Grey Nomads here at the lake invited, 17, I think. Kiwi-as cooked up a magnificent stew once again followed by a sherry trifle, mmmm, did I say trifle, we all found the sherry but where was the rest of the goodies in there Brandt?

I must mention that the kitchen hand, kiwi rainbow did a wonderful job with prep work too when all of a sudden the kitchen hand announced she was on strike. I reckon both these lovely people deserve a big round of applause for their cooking skills and hospitality. They have both made a very big impact on the Grey Nomad forum members since arriving in Australia earlier this year, thankyou Brandt and Lorraine. Oh! Just in case you are wondering, the famous Pav didnt make an appearance on this occasion, it was decided earlier it wasnt needed.

We had a young group of four set up a tent on the sand next to the water and during our big dinner get together they decided to light a fire using small tree branches they came back with in the back of their ute, they must have had trouble starting the fire so in their wisdom decided to throw some diesel on to speed up the process. Yep you guessed it, up it went, fuel container and all. Black smoke filled the air the tent was very close to not being available to sleep in and their boat was right next to where they very quickly chucked the fuel container into the lake. It took these clever people about 10 minutes to realise the boat was way too close so one brave sole rushed out and rescued the boat, he then just sat on the front and watched the by now rather large bon fire. After a short time they decided to start another fire successfully. Very clever people they were. Oh well we will put that down to our nights entertainment.

As I said above I am still to leave GL to start the next leg of my journey but it will be mixed feelings on the day and I tell you that for free but I must leave as I have a doctor appointment to keep and get blood tests and  a medical as I have decided to renew my bus licence, you just never know what you might come across out in the playground.

No Photos this week.

Well thats it for this update so until next time and maybe the last for this adventure anyway, enjoy what you do and,

Edit....just found out it was petrol not deisel.