Mildura, Vic. May 19, 2018
An early start saw us heading out along the Sturt Highway, and have slowed only to navigate our way through the straying cattle eating their way along the long paddock, we finally stopped for a short break and refreshments. We decided a nice hot coffee might be a better choice than a sip of cold water from the street corner fountain, despite its ornate looks and the fact that it commemorated the service given to the town by a long serving Mayor in 1883. Maybe if the original pewter mugs had still been dangling from their tethering chains we may have been tempted. Or not. The coffee was good at the Haveachat cafe, and we soon found ourselves back out on the road, heading west over the Hay Plain. The main, perhaps only, point of interest is that they grow cotton out here on the vast fields that stretch to the horizon and we must have come along toward the end of harvest as there were fields that looked like it had been snowing, and others bare except for the giant-sized rolls of picked a...