Melbourne to Bordertown

We discovered one redeeming feature at the Wantirna caravan park - the floor in the ablution block is heated. Yesterday we had lunch in Kew with our friends from the Viking cruise.

This morning we hit the road again and had a couple of unpleasant experiences on the road. The first was caused by an idiot in a red car tailgating a white ute in the lane next to us. The ute changed into our lane to get away from the tailgater, but the idiot followed into our lane barely inches from the back of the ute. My adrenelin surged when the ute driver hit the brakes, presumably in an attempt to cause the tailgater to back off. Unfortunately a Jeep towing a Bushtracker can't stop instantly! The idiot in the red car took the next exit before things got ugly.

Our second near miss involved a duck family that decided to cross the highway about 40 metres in front of the Jeep - mama, papa and about 5 ducklings. We couldn't do a thing to avoid them with vehicles behind and beside us, but thankfully all the ducks did a U turn just before meeting out tyres.

Our first stop was Kyneton to have a cuppa with another friend - and a dog fix from the lovely Pixi-Ann. After turning the Bushtracker around in the paddock we headed north west, setting the GPS for the Barossa Tourist Park. We planned our overnight stop to be Bordertown but made a good discovery when we found the free camp at the Bordertown Recreation Lake.

The lake was constructed when fill was needed for nearby roadworks. It is definitely not a swimming lake but has been stocked with fish and attracted water birds to the area.

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kazbah33 said…
OMG ... be careful out there on the roads. It sounds like you should be trading in "The Bushtracker" for "The Road Warrior".
14 October 2017 at 05:44
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