Albury/Ouyen

On Wednesday we left Canberra and drove to Albury this took 5 hours instead of the expected 4 due to some massive road works - they really go all out here and do major projects all at once.

From Albury to Ouyen - left at 9.00am and arrived at the camp at 4.00pm with only a couple of short stops on the way. We stopped at a little town called Holbrooke which is in the middle of no where and no sea for miles - when you drive through there is a huge submarine in one of the parks - crazy ah! so they class themselves as the submarine town. Baffles us how they got it there - we assume it was shifted in small pieces.

Then futher along the way we had to stop at a place called Yarrawanga as there was this beautiful lake named Lake Mulwala which was huge but had big trees sticking out of it all over the place - it would prove really challenging to water ski in it.

After staying the night in Ouyen we headed towards Adelaide - we now know where most of Australia's grain is grown - just miles and miles of it and such huge paddocks - it must sent them silly doing the plowing etc. So when up North Queensland every town was visible for miles by the sugar gain chimneys - down this part of the country it is the grain silo's that notify you that a town is coming up.

It was a very long straight road that didn't have a lot of scenery on it - so we were pleased to get to the end of it. It has made us reconsider driving to Perth, Broome and Darwin - maybe flying would be kinder?

We drove through a small historical township (Thanks Ian for telling us about it) called Handorf - which is just outside Adelaide - really cool looking place like a little old German town - but parking was an issue - so we will have to head back without the caravan on the back to have a look around.

When we crossed the boarder from Victoria to South Australia we had to throw all our fresh fruit out as you are not allowed to transport it into South Australia (what a waste of great fruit) you are also suppose to throw away any vegetables - but I had forgotten about the potato's and a couple of carrots in the fridge so thankfully we didn't get pulled up and checked as it is an on the spot fine if you are caught carrying it.

We are really looking forward to the rest of the travelling over the next month as it will be mostly around the South Coast Roads which are suppose to have beautiful scenery.