Ages ago, we planned a massive trip interstate, and decided that we
would go on this trip with our Moscow friend that was visiting us,
Natalia who was planning on coming in April. Alex planned the trip
before hand, we packed the groceries, brought some extra equipment
needed, and got serviced our car.
Even thought we started packing
way before hand, the morning began of with the traditional running
around the car, the kids and the stuff got lost left behind, repeatedly,
and then were found in the most unexpected places. As result we ended up
leaving an hour after we planned to.
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Murray River shore in Mildura |
So we could catch up to all
the time we lost, we had to move on fast and quickly, almost without
any stops to absorb the beauty and the landmarks, and to take any photos
of the areas we drove past. It was pretty tough to drive like this,
especially because we have little kids in the car. So we ended up having
to entertain them with sweets and sandwiches the whole drive there.
We obviously
didn't go over the speed limit, but we did have to overtake the slow
traffic. That was not difficult in the territory of our state, as we have
nice and comfortable lanes for overtaking the other vehicles that appear
quite often. In the state
Victoria they do not have those, and we had
to overtake the slowly moving cars with caravans by going into the other side of the
road which was not as fun and as safe.
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Bredl's Wonder World of Wildlife... Closed, Renmark, South Australia |
On our way to the Riverland (a farming region that is on the edge of SA and VIC and NSW) we saw
signs saying we should throw out any fruits or veggies due to quarantine.
At the time we couldn't understand why such small things could affect
the ecological balance of the region, but to our relief our kids ate all
the fruits we had with no issues.
One of the not many stops we
had to do was in Renmark, and one thing that really got our attention,
was not the long awaited toilet, but a huge statue of a dinosaur. When
we walked around it we read on a sign that this area used to be and old
zoo of wild animals, which contained Australian and overseas animals. We
later on found out that this zoo belonged to a famous naturalist Rob
Bredly. Sadly this zoo closed a couple of years ago, like many other
attractions due to lack of visitors.
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Bird watching and feeding at Murray River quay in Mildura |
What do you think was the
place that we were in such a rush to get to? The reason is, that from
the river pier of a lovely town Mildura in the State Victoria, twice a day a small paddle steamer goes on a small ride on the waters
of the Murray River. We really hoped we were able to reach Mildura in
time to go on it's last voyage of the day at 2 pm.
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