Howlong 2010

October 20th, Had a lovely drive to Howlong, the Countryside is very green with rolling hills. This is mostly sheep country. We stopped at Tarcutta for a break and had a look at the Truck Drivers Memorial and also found out that this was the mid point between Sydney and Melbourne and explained why we saw two semis changing over Rigs. This means that a Melbourne driver drives his load up to Tarcutta then it is taken the rest of its journey to Sydney by the Sydney driver and the same method for the Sydney load. Each driver is then only away from home for one day. We got all our information from a truckie who was transporting a load of 303 sheep but told us his rig could hold up to 500 sheep. It would be a bit squashy for the sheep. The top of his trailer wasn’t covered so we were surprised that the sheep didn’t try to jump out. We stopped at Holbrook for lunch in the park alongside the Submarine Museum and had a look at the huge HMAS OTWAY sub on display, out front. We noticed the signs of the recent flooding as we crossed over the various rivers and gullies. We booked into the Kismet Riverside Lodge at Howlong, about 30 klm from Albury. After setting up we went for a walk down to the Murray River and found it very brown and running very fast. I think that was due to all the local flooding in this area and the floods are still in progress in some areas north of here. This looks like a good place to stay, a lot of permanents and only 10 Caravan sites. I would recommend that you should take an ensuite site as the Amenities block is a good walk away. Another first, we do not have to pay for our site until we are leaving, WOW!

October 21st, Drove into Corowa to check out the Caravan Parks and look around Town. Val wants to find a Park, on the Murray River, that has absolute riverfront sites, so she can sit at the Caravan and see the river. She can’t do that here at Kismet Riverside Lodge. All the Parks in Corowa were on the river but were not absolute riverfront, so not suitable.She has found one at Yarrawonga and we have made a booking and will move there on Saturday.

October 22nd, Went down to the River this morning to throw a line in, using plastics. Snagged 3 lots of rig and no fish, typical. We drove into Howlong after lunch to look around. That didn’t take long so we popped into the Court House Hotel, built in 1902, and had a Chardy and a flutter before going back to the Van. We packed up ready to leave in the morning for Yarrawonga.