Only a short distance covered today and again I am driving through farming country with only occasional river glimpses. There are lots of irrigation channels here but the farms do not look as well cared for as our local farms. The lady at the Cohuna visitor centre that is because the farmers are not being given enough water, it makes me wonder what the rainfall is compared to our eastern wheatbelt. She also told me that one local dairy farmer is paying $420,000 per month for water to feed his cattle. The other thing that I noticed was what seemed to be a lot of traffic for a country road on a Sunday. Again I was told that some of this was for an 80km ski race on the river that finishes in Echuca. The other reason might be that the towns here are pretty close together, almost like suburbs.
My first stop was Cohuna which I expected to be a small town with nothing to see. It is a medium size town with quite a bit to see. If it had not been so close to my start point, only about 40km, I would have stayed there. On the river bank away from the Main Street they had a lovely rv camp. The river here is actually Gunbower Creek which feeds into the Murray close to the town. They have small weir here, no doubt to facilitate irrigation, surrounded by a very well tended park including the rv camp on the farthest side of the weir. The shopping centre is the main street about 500 metres long and like a lot of rural towns the buildings are fairly but well preserved. I spent a fair bit of time here looking, walking, photographing and talking to the lady in the visitor centre.
Then I moved on, stopping about 10km out of town in a little parking spot to bake my bread. I prepare it first thing in the morning leaving it to rise until after breakfast, then kneed it again and put it in the oven (not turned on) to rise again. Then about 1 to 2 hours later I find a rest spot for morning tea and bake the bread.
Next stop was Echuca where I first checked with the visitor centre then took her advice and came out her to claim my spot at the Rotary RV camp. The reason for the rush is to beat all the people that ar3 here for the ski race. It is a basic dir5 spot righ5 on the river bank, the Campaspie Rivet.
My first stop was Cohuna which I expected to be a small town with nothing to see. It is a medium size town with quite a bit to see. If it had not been so close to my start point, only about 40km, I would have stayed there. On the river bank away from the Main Street they had a lovely rv camp. The river here is actually Gunbower Creek which feeds into the Murray close to the town. They have small weir here, no doubt to facilitate irrigation, surrounded by a very well tended park including the rv camp on the farthest side of the weir. The shopping centre is the main street about 500 metres long and like a lot of rural towns the buildings are fairly but well preserved. I spent a fair bit of time here looking, walking, photographing and talking to the lady in the visitor centre.
Then I moved on, stopping about 10km out of town in a little parking spot to bake my bread. I prepare it first thing in the morning leaving it to rise until after breakfast, then kneed it again and put it in the oven (not turned on) to rise again. Then about 1 to 2 hours later I find a rest spot for morning tea and bake the bread.
Next stop was Echuca where I first checked with the visitor centre then took her advice and came out her to claim my spot at the Rotary RV camp. The reason for the rush is to beat all the people that ar3 here for the ski race. It is a basic dir5 spot righ5 on the river bank, the Campaspie Rivet.
Lovely x
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