On our way

It was great to actually set off, once we had seen Polly so pleased to be at Sue and Derek’s!...aren’t we lucky? The new van is travelling really well and we are learning to do the ‘Topaz Tango” !...working out where everything goes and getting into a routine . We have found that traveling at 80km/hr instead of 90 - 95 we get an extra 100 km per tank... air resistance is high .... and is more relaxing. We get 13.4 L/100km whereas with the Avan we got 10.2 at 95 km/hr.

The Pink Lakes were not pink this time...strange!

After a delicious lunch at Redbank with Sal, we headed for St Arnaud and then to Horsham.
Quite a lot of the country is still flooded, and would be a haven for birds like crakes and rails - Rob had a fleeting glance of a crake or rail by the side of the road - may have been a Buff banded rail (or maybe a Lewins rail)– but there is so much habitat for them that they are not easily seen.

The country is green and paddocks are being sown down with winter crops...enormous machinery!

When I tried to connect to the internet with the Big Pond dongle -  drama!!! Unable to connect! SOS to Rob B then into Telstra this morning and easily fixed... apparently the credit had not been registered...so then off to Berri.
We enjoy going through the Mallee country to Pinnaroo, and arrived at about 3pm.

Had a lovely walk along a track through a Lignum swamp along the Murray, which was still flooded in parts, and was alive with birds.

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