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Friday, October 22, 2010

Shepparton to Euroa


Shepparton to Euroa = 55km
Cummulative total = 8327km

It was a warm night last night and Kouta decided that he wants to sleep right between our heads at night now and slowly throughout the night he will move down between us and eventually end up at the bottom of our feet ... if he is not too careful he will be out the door! .. yeah right as if we would do that!
We left this morning and made our way back out east towards where we came in the other day - it is very easy to get lost in Shepparton if you don't have a map as the roads around Shepparton are in a grid system but some are dead ends so if you take one of those accidently then you will have to back track! lucky we had a map with some of the street names on and we found our way to the Euroa-Shepparton road and headed south. It is flat around there so the going was good.
After you get past all the fruit trees you then come back into cattle and sheep country - so the hayfever is not to bad today - I had a good day yesterday (rest day) so that was lucky. Below is a photo of the typical country side we have been riding in.

After Moglonemby the road becomes rolling as you can see the Strathbogie ranges to your left. The road was very quiet albeit a little bumpy but most of it was a 1 lane road with light traffic.
We got to Euroa just on lunchtime and we got a powered site and for some strange reason (and this has happened to us a fair bit especially in the privately owned campgrounds) the owner was reluctant to put us in a proper powered site - first he was going to put us right next to the communal meeting area just because it was small and we would be able to fit - we said no, then he was going to put us on a corner where cars would be passing by should they come - we didn't like that, so we asked can we go along the river bank (no threat of rain tonight!) and he made up some pitiful excuse about tent pegs going into the water pipe - we didn't bother to tell him that the caravaners already there had driven their annexe pegs into the ground! So he put us in a normal site that has the hot afternoon sun but by 5.30pm we should be in shade so he says! So I am not impressed with this park - it has a lovely setting but his reluctance to put us in a spot that could be taken up by caravaners really annoyed us.
Tomorrow we go to Alexandra.

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