Today we wandered through Rennie, Savernake (where my mum grew up) through Coleambally (for Craig) to Junee. The country looks amazing.
Back to Canberra tomorrow evening. Saturday morning Deloraine!! What an adventure. Now reality settles in.
Thanks for following us.
Cheers
Mary and John

Opposite our site was a date palm. I am wondering about how these all appeared in little country towns after WW1. Anyway on the way to the bin I looked up under the fronds and after calmly walking back to the van for my camera I found this very cute couple.

Dad ( Red rumped Parrot) of course was looking like a million dollars and sat around posing for me WHILE------

Mum was head down and bum up literally building the nest by tearing out the space with her beak.  Feathers ready to line it! I am sure they will make beautiful babies.

I promise this will be the last bird blog but how could you not love these little guys!!

This little Apostle Bird took a fancy to Pa's slippers. Sad that old people take their slippers with them camping. It is bloody freezing here in Junee tonight, and I have mine on too!!

This little bloke decided after exploring Pa's slippers he might move in with us!

Sadly he checked us out and decided we didn't cut it!

When I was growing up this bank of the lake on the Mulwala side was just weeds and reeds. Now it is  luxury row. These houses start from one million dollars.

When I was a child there were gardens beds at intervals up the Main Street with date palms in the middle of them. I remember when I was about ten my dad and all the other men who had trucks or brute strength removed all but these to make way for cars. Progress!!

I have loved sitting on the bank of my river just feeling at home. Below is the view from our site.

This is my lake where we all learned to swim and ski as kids. I am allowed to call it mine as my dad helped clear all the trees out to create the lake before it was filled.

Lake Mulwala was the result of the building of a weir. We were chatting to another Garden-Nome ( Craig and I have created this group to replace the Grey Nomads) and when I said I was born in Yarra he asked me if the weir was here when I was a kid !!!!!!!!! I did not hit him.

We drove through Barmah on our way to Yarrawonga but short of having morning tea on the river there, once again all river tracks were under water.

It is great to be back once more where I was born and we spent yesterday exploring all the new developments along the banks of Lake Mulwala. It is amazing. The population is 6,000 but during the Summer it explodes to 50,000.

We will explore some more today.
Cheers
Mary and John