Mildura - home sweet home

Well we have been home a few wks now but i thought i should finish off the blog about our trip. What a great holiday we had even with the few minor hickups.

After bendigo we headed for mildura. Didnt expect such a beautiful town there but it really is like an oasis. There are palm trees all up the main street. We went on the Melbourne paddle steamer down the Murray river. Kids loved this.

We then went to Wentworth to see the Perry sandhills. They say its like the sahara desert which it is. Such red deserty sand. while in wentworth we also went to the junction point where the Murray meets the darling river.

The next day we went to an opal place which also had a 1 acre maze. Ethan once again loved this and its one of the biggest mazes in Australia.

went to Orange World and went on a tour. Was fun going around the orchid on a train pulled by a tractor. The guide Mario was such a funny man i think thats why ethan enjoyed it the most. He also got 9/10 of the questions correct.

Off to Renmark and went through quartine. Our electric brakes played up again sending smoke of the back tyres so when we arrived in renmark we got two new tyres on the camper and took it in to the caravan repairer. So we stayed the night in a cabin. The big 4 in renmark is spectacular right on the murray river with resort style pool and top qualtiy playground. We took the kids to Monash to play on an all ages playground which was really good and went to the almond factory to taste almonds.

From renmark we did a long days drive to Port augusta for 2 nights. Not much of a town some nice views though. went to the Mathew Flinders red cliff look out. Museum and the water tower lookout.

Onto ceduna for two nights as the weather was too hot to cross the Nullabor. The flies were awful so escaped to the beach there which we love. Our aircon started to make a funny nosie so took it to the mechanic. he didnt have time to fix it but said sounds like a leaf caught up in it but safe to use.

Finally cooler weather and we hit the rd for ecula no probs and all the bikies were camping in eucla aswell. A big storm hit that night. So glad we werent one of the bikies sleeping in a swag out there.

The next day we were planning on going to Norseman but by now we were just dying to get home so we travelled 12 hrs to esperance. Pulled in when it was getting dark and set up camp ready to leave again first thing for home.

Home sweet home yay its good to be back home again. Back into normal routine now and kids went back to school for 2 wks before easter school holidays. Graeme took the car in to get the aircon looked at as it was still noisy but also smelly. The removed a dead rat. lol