We are off again with our camper trailer. We were planning to leave earlyish, but Toby slept and slept and slept. The boy, who is normally awake at 6:30 am at the latest, slept today until 8:45 am. Not that it really mattered, we were finishing off packing the car and trailer, and doing odd jobs around the house.

We left before 10 am, bought some bread rolls and a loaf of bread at the local shops, and started driving. By midday we were just south of Bendigo where we stopped for lunch. The rest stop was spacious and very well laid out. it was also the first time we had used our kitchen on the side of the road, and it worked very well.

We stopped again in Wycheproof because we saw an old steam train and turntable that the kids climbed on. Toby, being the steam-train obsessed child that he is, was very excited. The dominating feature of the towns in the mallee was the silos. There seemed to be silos with their train tracks everywhere, and flat paddocks full of wheat inbetween.

We stopped for the night at the Lake Mournpall campground at Hattah-Kulkyne National Park just south of Mildura. We have a very sandy campsite, but it is a lovely place. There are pit toilets and rubbish bins, and the fee is $17 for a car with up to 6 people. We saw a goanna walking around on the ground and then heard and saw some birds getting excited about it and swooping it. The goanna didn’t seem bothered by them and climbed up a tree.

We had a dinner of spaghetti and bolognaise sauce, and then it was bedtime for us.

Lunch Spot

Steam Train

My three boys on the train

Look Mummy, this is where the coal goes!

And this is where the coal was stored!

The turntable

A silo.

Goanna up a tree.