20170601_112758.jpg=NSW, Hay - Presentation Convent c1900, now privately owned
S702.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - First we visited the Gundagai information centre - Rusconi's marble masterpiece. Built by monumental mason Frank Rusconi from 20,948 hand made piecesof NSW marble. Ittook him from 1910 to 1928 to complete it working about 3 hours every day on it.
06.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds early morning - Little Corella pictures aren't absolutely true colours because (a) the (white) birds look orange from the rays of the rising sun, and (b) I used an "auto-correct" function in the picture editor and the blue sky became deeper than the actual
S72915.jpg=Victor Harbor town centre - SA Bank (1848) and the Telegraph Office (1866)
S7299.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island horse-drawn tram
S7051.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds next morning - interesting old pavilions etc
S7319.jpg=Tooleybuc Bridge over Murray River built in 1907 and still an operational "lift bridge".
S7027.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Old curved glass store windows
20170601_113555.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk - Built in 1897 and is now Foodworks. The building has unique light wells and verandah iron posts and lace work
Frost.jpg=After Hay, we traveled the approx 250km to Gundagai, set up at the caravan park and nexxt morning woke up to quite a covering of frost.
Blowout.jpg=Next morning we were driving toward Taree on the Pacific Hwy when disaster struck us. We blew a tyre at about 100 km/hour; it threw us around a bit but we were able to stop reasonably quickly and pull onto the verge. Obviously the tyre was shredded, but it had also broken and torn the fibreglass mudguard/skirt from the M/H
20170601_100808.jpg=NSW, Hay - Hay railway station c1882
S7297.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island horse-drawn tram
S7019.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk - Post Office (1881)
024.jpg=At Gundagai as the morning warmed up a little - a dozen or so Pied Currawong (page 426)
20170605_150134.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds next morning - interesting old pavilions etc
S72917.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island causeway
S70214.jpg=Gundagai historic rail bridge c1903
29Pan07.JPG=Victor Harbor - The Bluff from Granite Island causeway
20170530_112317.jpg=South Australia, Strathalbyn where the SA telephone club hold regular shows
S7312.jpg=Walpeup, Victoria
S72913.jpg=Victor Harbor town centre - Railway Station (bottom left) and Anchorage Hotel (bottom right)
S603.jpg=About 5am we were woken by the police knocking - we had to clear the rest area to allow a medivac chopper to land and pick up a patient, in a bad way after a motorway roll-over
20170530_112943.jpg=Murray River near Tailem Bend SA
20170602_132206.jpg=Gundagai - The OldBridge Inn
292.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island causeway
S7025.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - St Patrick's Catholic Church c1885.
S730.jpg=Victoria, Mildura country on the Mallee Hwy, where the towns are small but have large grain silos
S7295.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island horse-drawn tram
S7012.jpg=NSW, Hay - Hay railway station c1882
S70110.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk - Post Office (1881) and LandsOffice (1896)
052.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds for one night - The  Rainbow Lorikeets seem to be stimulated by the oncoming darkness
S601.jpg=NSW - Riverina cotton harvested and packed ready for transport
S7282.jpg=Kangaroo Island - Penneshaw on our last morning
29.jpg=Victor Harbor waterfront, north to Victor Harbor and south to the Bluff
S7031.jpg=We had planned to stay at a caravan park in Camden overnight but when we rang, they were fully booked so we stayed in a picturesque roadside camping stop for the night.
022.jpg=At Gundagai as the morning warmed up a little - a dozen or so Pied Currawong (page 426)
S7314.jpg=Walpeup, Victoria - The concrete silos, about 35m high were built in the 1930s using hand-mixed concrete
S70216.jpg=About 7km from Gundagai is the iconic "Dog on the Tuckerbox" statue (created in 1932 by Frank Rusconi)
053.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds for one night - The  Rainbow Lorikeets seem to be stimulated by the oncoming darkness
S729Pan04.JPG=Victor Harbor - Granite Island causeway
S7285.jpg=After Kangaroo Island - arriving at  Cape Jervis
061.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds early morning - Again some noisy Rainbow Lorikeets but not as many as at sunset
S7293.jpg=Victor Harbor - view from The Bluff
02.jpg=At Gundagai as the morning warmed up a little - a dozen or so Pied Currawong (page 426) were constantly repeating their pleasant song
S7315.jpg=Walpeup, Victoria - RSL memorial club
S706.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds next morning - we like the open spaces but the bat-wing doors on the (men's) showers might not impress some
S7014.jpg=NSW, Hay - Hay railway station c1882
S70210.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Sheridan St near the information centre
20170602_084533.jpg=Morning frost at Gundagai - frost is slow to clear under M/H shadow.
063.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds early morning - Again some noisy Rainbow Lorikeets but not as many as at sunset
S70112.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk - Police station and Public Works Dept (1909) was originally the police sergeant's quarters.
S728Pan08.JPG=After Kangaroo Island - Cape Jervis
S7011.jpg=NSW, Hay - Heritage town walk
20170602_124443.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Gundagai Railway Station (1885)
S7317.jpg=Walpeup, Victoria - Mallee Hwy
S7029.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Criterion Hotel with its murals of bushranger hold-ups and scenes of the 1852 flood
Frost2.jpg=Morning frost at Gundagai - frost is slow to clear under shadows. The pic on the right shows where the rubbish bin shadow had kept the frost from melting.
S7291.jpg=Victor Harbor as we arrive from the Fleurieu Peninsula
S7016.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk
S6012.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk - Foodworks murals
S704.jpg=After an eventful night, we spent a few hours with friends for lunch in Sydney then made tracks (north) to Lake Macquarie for the night.
S70212.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Gundagai Railway Station (1885)
027.jpg=Gundagai - Town views from the Rotary lookout, also shows the old bridges and the new highway by-passing the town
S7298.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island horse-drawn tram
S72911.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island causeway
20170602_110327.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Gundagai Court House c1859.
S7022.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk
20170601_122403.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk - Courthouse (1892)
S73110.jpg=Tooleybuc is a town in the western Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia.
S7018.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk - Courthouse (1892).
S7301.jpg=Tailem Bend on the Murray River - we stayed here in 2013 when the Murray river was at a high level.
28Pan01.JPG=Lush pastures between Cape Jervis and Victor Harbor
023.jpg=At Gundagai as the morning warmed up a little - a dozen or so Pied Currawong (page 426)
Dawn (6)colour.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds early morning - First a large flock of noisy Little Corellas flying past.
S728.jpg=Kangaroo Island - Penneshaw on our last morning
S72916.jpg=Victor Harbor town centre - Anchorage Hotel (bottom left) and old Police Station and Court House (bottom right)
S70215.jpg=Gundagai historic rail bridge c1903
S701.jpg=NSW, Hay - Riverina cotton transport through Hay. Many towns have signs as we enter for trucks to "drop dust before entering town". This pic shows why.
05.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds for one night before our final day on the road to home. The noise from these flocks of Rainbow Lorikeets would wake the dead - there could have easily been 1000 of them, circling, screeching, landing in a tree and taking off again.
S7311.jpg=Walpeup, Victoria - although the town has suffered from the closure of the grain silos, they still maintain this memorial garden. Called the Dryland Memorial Gardens it was created to honour the early Mallee pioneers
DSC_0001.JPG=Cape Jervis
S604.jpg=It looks pretty nasty, but with a spare tyre fitted and temporary repairs to the fibreglass, we are on our way again. As we often say to each other, "it could have been much worse".
025.jpg=Gundagai - Town views from the Rotary lookout
S7028.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Criterion Hotel with its murals of bushranger hold-ups and scenes of the 1852 flood
S7283.jpg=Kangaroo Island - leaving Penneshaw and back to Cape Jervis
S7024.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Gundagai Court House c1859.
20170602_125809.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Timber span rail bridge with the roadbridge in the background. Both these bridges are now closed
021.jpg=At Gundagai as the morning warmed up a little - a dozen or so Pied Currawong (page 426). They look much like a cross between a crow and a magpie
S7296.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island horse-drawn tram
S70111.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk - Witcombe street fountain (1884). Donated by the mayor John Witcombe
20170602_110115.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Criterion Hotel with its murals of bushranger hold-ups and scenes of the 1852 flood that almost completely sept the old town away. The main parts of Gundagai are now on much higher ground.
S72914.jpg=Victor Harbor town centre
S7313.jpg=Walpeup, Victoria - like many Mallee towns, the use of the large silos has been ended because of improved shipping methods
291.jpg=Victor Harbor - Wright Island and Granite Island
S7281.jpg=Kangaroo Island - Penneshaw on our last morning
20170602_130101.jpg=Gundagai historic rail bridge c1903
S7026.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk
S7013.jpg=NSW, Hay - Hay railway station c1882
20170530_143758.jpg=Rainy weather near the SA/Victoria border, this B-Double had turned over. No pot of gold at the end of this rainbow
S70211.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Old disused timber span, road (1869 to 1984) and rail (1903) bridges and the war memorial
028.jpg=Gundagai - Town views from the Rotary lookout showing the old bridges and also a close up of St Patricks Catholic Church
S7294.jpg=Victor Harbor - view from The Bluff
20170529_150704.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island causeway
S72910.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island causeway and piles of washed up seaweed nearby
20170529_144513.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island terminal
S7021.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Dad/Dave/Mum/Mabel statues near the Gundagai information centre
Granite_Island.jpg=Victor Harbor
054.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds for one night - The  Rainbow Lorikeets seem to be stimulated by the oncoming darkness
S7023.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Old Gundagai Goal c1859.
S7284.jpg=After Kangaroo Island - arriving at  Cape Jervis
Frost1.jpg=Morning frost at Gundagai at the caravan park. We had been wondering whether we would drive the Newell or Pacific Hwy north to Brisbane after we reach Sydney. This frost helped us to decide on the coast road (Pacific Hwy).
S7292.jpg=Victor Harbor waterfront, north to Victor Harbor and south to the Bluff
S7015.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk - Homes; the one on the right is enirely clad using corrugated iron
DSC_0026.JPG=Grafton Showgrounds for one night - The  Rainbow Lorikeets seem to be stimulated by the oncoming darkness
051.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds for one night - The  Rainbow Lorikeets seem to be stimulated by the oncoming darkness, circling, screeching, landing in a tree and taking off again.
S7316.jpg=Walpeup, Victoria - unusual plants beside the RSL memorial club
S730Pan01.JPG=Near Pinnaroo close to the SA/Victoria border. The town's farewell sign was "Hoo-Roo from Pinnaroo".
S731.jpg=Victoria - Our overnight stop was at the small town of Walpeup (about 100 residents). Wewere parked up near a newer M/H quite similarto ours - this one though was a Jayco brand.
S705.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds next morning - interesting old pavilions etc
SAtoSydneycr.jpg=Our drive from South Australia to Sydney will be via the Mallee Hwy (through the NW corner of Victoria), then the Sturt Hwy to Junee before taking the expressway into Sydney. Shown on the map as the Blue triangles
S6011.jpg=NSW - Riverina cotton fields stretch over hundreds of kilometres
S73111.jpg=In NSW - our first stopover is at Hay. Autumn/Winter colours arenice, but a pity that they also come with frost.
S72912.jpg=Victor Harbor - Granite Island horse-drawn tram
026.jpg=Gundagai - Town views from the Rotary lookout
S70213.jpg=Gundagai Heritage Walk - Murrumbidgee River with the railbridge steel section and Morleys Creek
S7017.jpg=NSW, Hay Heritage town walk - St Andrews Presbyterian Church (1897) and AJS bank (1877), now Westpac
S7286.jpg=Lush pastures between Cape Jervis and Victor Harbor
062.jpg=Grafton Showgrounds early morning - Again some noisy Rainbow Lorikeets but not as many at as sunset
S729.jpg=Victor Harbor town centre - Grosvenor Hotel (1896)
S703.jpg=The aftermath was that a 70-ish (Y.O.) man had probably dropped off to sleep and unfortunately was not wearing his seat belt. Because the accident happened right outside the park, the next morning they parked the tow truck nearby
S7318.jpg=Tooleybuc Bridge over Murray River built in 1907 is a gateway between Victoria and NSW
S6013.jpg=Leaving Hay crossing over the Murrumbidgee River bridge