Hogwash - Mildura

We left Hogwash and went onto Waikerie and checked out the painted silos and moved onto Holders Bend Reserve, this was nice but not as nice as Hogwash in our view.

Leaving Holders Bend after a night we went on to Barmera, here we did an Oops and got set up before making an on line booking only to find out that Vista Reserve was closed until Easter.

So onto Martin’s Bend Reserve near Berri. This was a lovely place, though we could not park close to the river it was nice to see lush green grass and a camp ground well maintained and all for $5 a night !! We stayed here two nights and went into Berri to do some shopping on the 2nd day.

Two days are about our limit at present, we are timing ourselves to arrive at Deniliquin on Thursday to attend the Masterpiece Caravan gathering for a few days. After Martin’s Bend we went looking for some River Camping places, after two fails and around 100k trip we gave up and headed for Mildura and arriving later than we would normally we found the prime river spots taken. A drive up and down some tracks and eventually we found a spot close to the river but also close to the dirt road. We we entertained by some local lads drifting around the track sending up gravel and dust … we think the same group entertained us on the river in their tinnies yahooing …

Eventually things quieted down and we had a nice evening, next day was a short drive into The Palms Van Park, here we were greeted by a very pleasant lady who looked after us with a large grassy site. Vickie has been catching up with the washing and I gave the Van & Chev a wash.