Sunday 9th April 2006

After breakfast, we hit the road and the Oakes went off to church. We discovered the first hotspot at Maccas to download our emails. We had to stop at Manangatang (the name sounded too good to miss out on seeing the town!) so we bought the Sunday Age (David wanted to see pictures of his Cats win). Our trusty travel adviser suggested turning off onto the river track through Hattah Lakes National Park so we finally engaged 4WD. It turned out to be excellent advice, as we stopped in a quiet spot by the Murray for lunch and to take photographs. Someone told me to look out for "big" things along the way so we managed to find the "Big Murray Cod" and the "Big Lizzie". We camped by the river in Mildura. Cathy put her doctoring skills to work stopping our neighbours from bleeding to death!!!