It is blog time again, this time brought to you from Wills Patk in Wagga Wagga. This is a large park with a minimal amount of grass, some rather magnificent trees and a whole bundle  of campers. The road circling two sides of the park is very busy but not very noisy. There is also, I believe an issue with the ‘locals’, indeed  the evidence of their camp can be quite clearly seen. But their camp is a long way, a relative long way from the main body of campers. The campers are also well spread out with lots of space between us. So it will be quite a pleasant place to spend the night.

Today’s big event was a visit to the Hume Dam. This is a very impressive project, the details can be found by checking with mr/mrs/miz google but just for the sake of tonight’s blog it holds six times the amount of water in Sydney harbour. It is huge and a very impressive sight. If I remember correctly that makes it one third the size of Lake Argyle. I do not mean that as a boastful claim rather as an example of what we can and do do in Australia. I was rather overawed by the whole thing. I have been camped on the shores of the lake for a couple of days and it really is rather nice.

After that I went into Albury and after circling the block many times angle parked using two marked spaces in order to go and shop. This was my first big shop since leaving home which means that the fridge was getting rather bare. The other reason for doing the shop now is this business of border quarantines. Generally speaking you cannot take fresh food across state borders. Which means that while I was following the Murray with the possibility of crossing borders frequently (which by the way did not happen in terms of where I camped) I had to have the absolute minimum of fresh food. You can take food which has been processed or part cooked across the borders and this is what I did. Anyway I am now stocked up as I will be in NSW for some time.

Tomorrow off further north hopefully finishing up at Griffith.