Mildura Vic

Mildura Viic May 14 2015

Flashed down from Broken Hill to Mildura, 300km or so. Heaps of wild goats running wild everywhere, but thank heavens they tend to run away from the road, not like roos or emus. Also a few sheep wandering about and who knows what they will do? It’s 265 km BH to Wentworth with nothing much in between. There is a servo / roadhouse at Coonbah, but it’s too early to stop for anything. Those goats continued to show themselves in increasing numbers, we even saw one group with a few fairly new kids, which we haven't seen very often. They certainly way outnumber the sheep and you have to start wondering what impact they are having on the pasture and environment.

Slid into Mildura without stopping, no reason to as Wentworth is only 33 km from Mildura, and we’ve seen the lock, the confluence of the rivers and the old goal a few times already. So press on, and we did. The poor old GPS got a bit confused when trying to find our Big 4 Deakin, on Deakin Road and opposite to Big 4 Crossroads, as they are literally on corners next to each other.

As it turns out this isn't the park we thought we had booked. Got a bit confused as to the one we stayed in before which is up the road a bit, but this will do. We went into town and had a feed at a Hudaks Bakery, which appears to be an clone of the Beechworth Bakeries that have proliferated across the Murray in recent years. Judy reckons that the vanilla slice is as good, that the cook must have learnt the recipe at Beechworth. 

Wandered around the shopping mall in town, which had lots of empty shops, before going over to the riverside park where the paddle steamers were, then back to the info centre and back to the van park. As luck would have it, there is a largish shopping mall right over the road so we walked over and had a sniff about. Judy found the local Millers (is there one in every town in Australia?) and seemed satisfied with her few purchases.

Having had enough fun for one day, we went back to the van and drank wine and ate potato crisps while the pumpkin soup simmered away ready for dinner as well as some home made chicken rolls.