On The Road: Day 277 Kyneton Monday 11th March 2013

Hi All,

Today we did the Campaspe River walk and explored the botanical gardens. It was another day over 30 degrees, but compared to the cooler but more humid days of the north this temperature is easily manageable, goes to show that our South Aussie acclimatisation is alive and well to this dry heat.

No not a goofy pose, the flood height

Today's walk was 6.7 kms and our speed was the same as yesterday 3.6kms/hr, we might have to intentionally practice walking a bit faster. Our speed on our morning walk before we took to the road was between 5-6kms/hour, but it was bitumen and quite flat.

The river was a sad sight, not flowing and dammed up behind a number of weirs. There was obviously a flood in the not to distant past and the high tide mark was over Simon's head, indicating a rise of maybe 3 metres from the current level.

One of the nicer river views

Along the walk was Quarry Reserve & Sculpture Park, unfortunately many of the sculpture were damaged.
The botanical gardens had 17 seven trees on the National Trust register, unfortunately the Trust does not have any listing that I can find, they do have an app for an iPhone, what about those of us who do not have an iPhone!

We stopped in at the model train display, Simon examining the trains while I talked to the Mecano collectors.
This evening we went to the "Meet and Greet" and Simon propped the bar up consuming 4 beers and chatting to or rather listening to fellow timeshare owner Les. I chatted to a group of other owners and swapped stories, Joy and husband Rob owners for about 8 years have had 35 stays, using bonus weeks, well they are retired!