Month: January 2021
Back to Bendigo and Castlemaine
We returned to Bendigo, about 150 kms NE of Melbourne, on Friday to nail down some final details for the bi-ennial reunion of the unit that I served with in Vietnam – 85 Transport Platoon. On a day in which Bendigo had 65 mm, (2 1/2”) of rain – more than its monthly total in […]
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A Day in Ballarat
Not far from Creswick is Ballarat, Victoria’s third largest city. We spent another day there after our earlier day around the small towns in the Central Goldfields Region. Over the weekend, hot weather was forecast with temperatures above 40C (104F). Ballarat is generally a few degrees cooler than surrounding areas but at that extreme level […]
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A Visit to the Central Victorian Goldfields
One of the benefits of us having a Covid free community (at least for now) is that we can once again travel, even if it’s only within the state . This weekend we spent some time in the area of the Central Victorian Goldfields. We stayed at one of the RACV resorts at Creswick, about […]
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We Are Well and Truly Into The New Year
We are now well into the New Year and with a combination of cool and damp weather over the last week, along with a small rise in the number of Covid cases in Victoria we have spent a few quiet days at home but on the sunny days, managed to make the most of some […]
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