Day 4, first big drive and even more heat..........
Day 4 started off a little lazy with a pack up ready for our first decent stint of driving to Swan Hill. We packet up with relative ease (SOOOO much quicker and easier than the camper trailer).
A quick breakfast on the way was in order, before we hit the road at about 10:30ish.
Ballarat to Swan Hill is approximately 310 kms and out GPS told us it would take till 5 pm to reach our destination - how on earth could 310 kms takeover five hours to drive one would never know and as such we did not believe our GPS.
The drive saw us take on the flat plains of central victoria with nothing but long straights and not much in the way of landscape; nonetheless it was still very pretty. Bella was quite inquisitive as she could not understand why the road fell away from view ahead and we had to explain that because the Earth is round, what you are seeing is the curvature of the Earth! ......and with that she was rather impressed.
We drove through Bendigo on our way to Swan Hill and stopped off at a local bar for some lunch. Krystian ordered an open Souvlaki, oh boy was this a BIG meal, but like a gurnet he is, managed to consumed almost all of it.
About an hour out of Bendigo, we had to do a small repair to the van, when we noticed one of the wheel bearings getting rather hot. It turned out that the brake shoe was sticking a little and the bearing needed to be slightly let out due to the massive ambient heat. No biggie! Fixed and sorted in 15 minutes and back on the road we went.
We arrived in Swan Hill about 4:30, after all our stops, and begun to set up, in what turned out to be close to 45 degree heat. With a quick set up it was time for the pool for most of us, however bella and mama Nurse had to attend the hospital to see to Bella's extremely swollen, painful and bruised finger she sustained earlier that morning doing cartwheels on the giant jumping pillow.
No broken bones, just a substantial sprain, but she will recover and bounce another day. The nurses and Dr's were so lovely and welcoming here in Swan Hill. Can not thank them enough for their kindness and speedy attention to see us back at camp less than 1.5 hours later.
The remainder of the day consisted of siting in the pool till it got dark to try and cool off as best we could and spending considerable time searching for evaporative cooler or some way to cool us down in this heat.
Tomorrow will see us hit the Pioneer village and go cruising on the Murray River, followed by the night spectacular laser show.
Night night all. its time to attempt to sleep in what feels like 35 degrees outside and 500 degrees inside the caravan. oh i wish we had air conditioning.
A quick breakfast on the way was in order, before we hit the road at about 10:30ish.
Ballarat to Swan Hill is approximately 310 kms and out GPS told us it would take till 5 pm to reach our destination - how on earth could 310 kms takeover five hours to drive one would never know and as such we did not believe our GPS.
The drive saw us take on the flat plains of central victoria with nothing but long straights and not much in the way of landscape; nonetheless it was still very pretty. Bella was quite inquisitive as she could not understand why the road fell away from view ahead and we had to explain that because the Earth is round, what you are seeing is the curvature of the Earth! ......and with that she was rather impressed.
We drove through Bendigo on our way to Swan Hill and stopped off at a local bar for some lunch. Krystian ordered an open Souvlaki, oh boy was this a BIG meal, but like a gurnet he is, managed to consumed almost all of it.
About an hour out of Bendigo, we had to do a small repair to the van, when we noticed one of the wheel bearings getting rather hot. It turned out that the brake shoe was sticking a little and the bearing needed to be slightly let out due to the massive ambient heat. No biggie! Fixed and sorted in 15 minutes and back on the road we went.
We arrived in Swan Hill about 4:30, after all our stops, and begun to set up, in what turned out to be close to 45 degree heat. With a quick set up it was time for the pool for most of us, however bella and mama Nurse had to attend the hospital to see to Bella's extremely swollen, painful and bruised finger she sustained earlier that morning doing cartwheels on the giant jumping pillow.
No broken bones, just a substantial sprain, but she will recover and bounce another day. The nurses and Dr's were so lovely and welcoming here in Swan Hill. Can not thank them enough for their kindness and speedy attention to see us back at camp less than 1.5 hours later.
The remainder of the day consisted of siting in the pool till it got dark to try and cool off as best we could and spending considerable time searching for evaporative cooler or some way to cool us down in this heat.
Tomorrow will see us hit the Pioneer village and go cruising on the Murray River, followed by the night spectacular laser show.
Night night all. its time to attempt to sleep in what feels like 35 degrees outside and 500 degrees inside the caravan. oh i wish we had air conditioning.
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