Sunday morning at Rochford... drizzle working up to a rainy day. Ah well we are south of the Great Dividing Range; dividing the good weather from the bad...
We decided to get going as the Crom had decided on a early start to get back to the Wangaratta Jazz Festival - must be some good drummers on this morning.
Bayswater should only be 45 minutes or so away so we will indulge in a Maccas breakfast. Well a bacon and egg Mcmuffin with tea for Maz and a couple of hash browns and coffee for Al.
On to Bayswater and the Davidsons, all home, good fun, Girls are growing fast!!! A bit of lunch and off to find Matt at New Gisborne. He's expecting us... it is nearly 100km 'across town'.
Well he's not home. Lawn bowls was postponed from Saturday as it turns out. A quick look at Warrina and we are off home via Riddels Creek, Romsey, Lancefield, Broadford and the Hume. Been this way more times than I could count...
About 750 km for the weekend. we will do it again.
A Day on the Green 29th Oct 2011
After RHHINO being 'in the workshop' for a while... well it is a 'work-in-progress'... and having bought tickets to the Rochford Winery ADOTG, we figure the bus is the way to do it.
We bought tickets much earlier in the year/ Our plan is to drive at the public carpark and find place to park which is out of the way, and after the concert retire for the night. Thought about asking first, but asking forgiveness is often easier than asking permission...
While out to the east of Melbourne we plan on visiting the grand-daughters on the Sunday and then Matt's new place at New Gisborne on the way home.
So we headed down to cross the Hume at Benalla and to the Yarra Valley via Bonnie Doon Yea, etc East of Benalla, Lake Nillacootie was full. Never seen that before!!! At Bonnie Doon Eildon Weir poundage was to the brim. I remember skiing there as a teenager and having to duck passing under the railway bridge when the lake was that full 45 years ago.
Last time we came this way there was NO water and the bottom was all grass 30m below! It has been a wet year down south.
We ambled down to Rochford with a coffee stop at Yea, arriving about the same time the gates opened. At the public carpark we enquired where was an (level) out of the way place to park until everyone had gone. The attendant (CFA does it for donations) suggested the bus park might be better and directed us there. It was much closer to the venue too. At the bus shuttle park we asked again where was good for them. The bloke there said we could stay all night is we wanted to. It's a deal! Where to park? Set up on a pretty level corner with a short walk to the venue. We settle in. Boiled the kettle...
Closer to starting time Peter the Crom phoned to say he was here. We told him where to look and he came over. Gently asked if our friend could park nearby? No worries. Peter moved his car even closer than we were.
Well we had a great afternoon/evening with a good up and coming Melbourne band for starters then Steve Winwood and band for an hour or so and Steely Dan to close. The weather was kind - dry until immediately after the show! Since we were not driving anywhere we availed ourselves of the Rochford Wines from a crisp white to a warming red at the close... We settled down after a nightcap. It was pretty quiet not long after the show. The 'bump out' was far enough away so as not to disturb us - and the night cap didn't hurt. The Crom slept in his car next to the bus.
We bought tickets much earlier in the year/ Our plan is to drive at the public carpark and find place to park which is out of the way, and after the concert retire for the night. Thought about asking first, but asking forgiveness is often easier than asking permission...
While out to the east of Melbourne we plan on visiting the grand-daughters on the Sunday and then Matt's new place at New Gisborne on the way home.
So we headed down to cross the Hume at Benalla and to the Yarra Valley via Bonnie Doon Yea, etc East of Benalla, Lake Nillacootie was full. Never seen that before!!! At Bonnie Doon Eildon Weir poundage was to the brim. I remember skiing there as a teenager and having to duck passing under the railway bridge when the lake was that full 45 years ago.
Last time we came this way there was NO water and the bottom was all grass 30m below! It has been a wet year down south.
We ambled down to Rochford with a coffee stop at Yea, arriving about the same time the gates opened. At the public carpark we enquired where was an (level) out of the way place to park until everyone had gone. The attendant (CFA does it for donations) suggested the bus park might be better and directed us there. It was much closer to the venue too. At the bus shuttle park we asked again where was good for them. The bloke there said we could stay all night is we wanted to. It's a deal! Where to park? Set up on a pretty level corner with a short walk to the venue. We settle in. Boiled the kettle...
Closer to starting time Peter the Crom phoned to say he was here. We told him where to look and he came over. Gently asked if our friend could park nearby? No worries. Peter moved his car even closer than we were.
Well we had a great afternoon/evening with a good up and coming Melbourne band for starters then Steve Winwood and band for an hour or so and Steely Dan to close. The weather was kind - dry until immediately after the show! Since we were not driving anywhere we availed ourselves of the Rochford Wines from a crisp white to a warming red at the close... We settled down after a nightcap. It was pretty quiet not long after the show. The 'bump out' was far enough away so as not to disturb us - and the night cap didn't hurt. The Crom slept in his car next to the bus.
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