Wednesday 27 June 2012

Our visit to Nowra


We were back on the road again, but to go back to Nowra for a couple of days. It was very tiring as we travelled over night and it took 15 hours to get home. We had a great time catching up with family and friends. Mark’s dad, Alex is 90 years old next month so we had an early family gathering for his birthday. Janey and Justin did a great job cooking for us all and Kerry made a lovely fruit cake and decorated it with fresh camellia flowers on top. It looked beautiful. On the way home we travelled about 12 hours before stopping at Renmark at a motel overnight then another couple of hours to get back to Tanunda and picking up Beemer from the kennel.

Janey, Alex and Mark

Fiona, Alex and Justin

Alex, Fiona and Mark. Three generations.

Charmane, Trevor and Jane at Better than Menglers Lookout over looking 'The Valley'

Sun set at Better than Menglers

From Better than Menglers over looking 'The Valley'

Sun set somewhere between Mildura and Renmark

Sun set somewhere between Mildura and Renmark

Sun set somewhere between Mildura and Renmark. It was beautiful.




We stopped at Blanchtown to have a cuppa and fuel up. Blanchtown is a bit like Morgan but smaller. The lock and weir were interesting to see and the flood levels over the years was amazing.




Lock and weir at Blanchtown

Jane and one of the flood level indicators.

Lock at Blanchtown

Lock at Blanchtown



Flood level on one of the old buildings









Saturday 9 June 2012

Working in the Valley

At present we are at Tanunda in the Barossa Valley visiting Trevor and Charmane. We have been to Parham where Trevor and Mark went out on the boat and caught squid, King George whiting and blue swimmer crabs. We had a great few days around the fire cleaning, cooking and eating the catch. Now we are at work in the vineyard pruning. It is very restful being out in the open air with Trevor’s radio on a station that plays all the ‘old stuff we all recognise’. Beemer is having a great time running up and down the vines between us, then sleeping in the sun.

Beemer in amongst the vines

Some of the vines we pruned. There is still a lot more to do.

Jane and Beemer hard at work.

Resting after a hard day in the vine yard.