Kerang to Koondrook

Kerang to Koondrook = 26km
Cummulative total = 539km

Just a nice short day today. So here we are at the place where the Gunbower river meets the Mighty Murray river ... and produces ... mossies!!! hell I have been bitten a far bit before I managed to put the insect repellant on!
It is a lovely place but first let me show you photos of our campsite last night at Kerang.

It was a nice campsite with good facilities and the Loddon river ran alongside it.

This is our view from the back of the tents or from the dinner table/bike trailer upside down! Lovely isn't it, unfortunately the Loddon river here is full of weeds and that only seem to benefit the 3 swans that liked to test Kouta by coming up to us at the tents and this would drive Kouta nuts and he would always try to catch them!

Anyway we got up later this morning and by 9am the temperature started to get warm that we didn't need to wear the thermals at the start! Todays high is around 29 degrees and after spending the last 2-3 weeks with a high of only 23 degrees you definitely noticed the difference! But I think we all prefer the heat compared to the cold!

So after going to Safeway for the 3rd time since we got here at Kerang (loving all the cheap bargains we could get!) we finally left Kerang for a flat ride to Koondrook which is on the Victorian side and the town just the other side of the Murray river is Barham which is in NSW.
We got here around lunch time and just relaxed throughout the afternoon with a few of the local caravaners coming over to chat.

We did go for a walk before dinner and there is heaps of stuff to see here in Koondrook so I will put some photos on here tonight and the rest tomorrow.

We did see 2 young guys riding around on this bike below, I took the photo when it was parked outside the pub, but dad had seen it previously parked along the Murray as they must have been fishing.

It is a 'tri-sled' brand bike and has lots of gears, disc brakes and shocks at the front and I would imagine it would weigh a tonne!

But off course the main reason why we came in this direction is so dad could see the Murray so I have taken a few photos of it for him to take home and remember it!

On our way back to the caravan park we saw heaps of wood carvings which I will put the photos up tomorrow and a redgum sawmill which I thought Neils father would like and I will put those up tomorrow as well.

But below is a photo of the Koondrook town hall.

And the photo below is off the train that is at the center of town.

Dad is on the front of the engine but when he stood up on the engine and as I took the photo the first thing that popped into my head was the song sung by Sheena Easten "my baby works from 9 to 5, he works ...." as I remember the video of her hanging of the train engine just like dad is doing!!!! but dad doesn't look a bit like Sheena Easten!

Tomorrow we have a rest here and will go over to the other town of Barham to see what is going on over there!