The New Anslow Blog: Our Trip to Victoria

Heather and I had made plans to travel down to Victoria to attend a Amateur Radio weekend called Antennapalooza, described as "A social and technical symposium. A fun weekend promoting inter-club activities" now in its seventh year. http://www.antennapalooza.net.au

A loose plan was made;

Spend five days sightseeing on the way down.
Free camp whenever possible. We are self contained. See here.
Spend six days sightseeing on the way home.
Avoid Sydney and Melbourne at all costs!
No more than 4 to 5 hours driving.
Have Fun! 😊

We also had decided to only take two dogs with us this time to make it easier. Bambi who seems to be permanently attached to me and Buffy. Mac and Cody along with our elderly cat Chappie stayed with Kip https://kip.com.au/locations/hunter-valley/ where they get spoilt rotten. 😁

As this blog does not happen in real time, here is a map of our trip from our home in Largs, Hunter Valley, NSW down to Drouin West, West Gippsland Vic.

The Red Circles mark where we stayed overnight and we free camped with the exception of Mallacoota.

Day 1

A week or so before we left on our trip there was some heavy rains up in the catchment of the Hunter and Paterson Rivers and the level of the Hunter river was close to 10 Meters at Belmore Bridge at Maitland.

Hunter River at Flat Road Lorn

Belmore Bridge and the Hunter River getting closer to the levee bank

The river peaked the next day.

New England Highway near Whittingham NSW 2330. We are saving $63.18 on outrageous road tolls and avoiding Sydney traffic by traveling south on the Putty Road to Windsor, then on to Campbelltown to join the Hume Motorway.

A view from Range Road railway overpass of the New England Highway. The Intersection of the New England Highway and The Golden Highway was closed to traffic with roadworks.