Apollo Bay, Victoria

Remember coming around a bit of a windy road and all of a sudden seeing this view, the rolling hills near down to the sea.  The area is Apollo Bay in the State of Victoria on the way back from South Australia.

Funny weather in Tasmania - Snow in November, late spring just amazing.  Photo taken out the family room window you can just see snow on Ben Lomond over 1 hour drive from home.  Last week is was 29degC.

At Mildura, Victoria

Hoping you will enjoy a journey inland in the State of Victoria to inland New South Wales, Australia. I think this was our 3rd or 4th trip at that time in the car staying at Motels along the way and eating our meals at restaurants. These early years of travelling we didn't take our caravan..

Showing photos of Swan Hill on the Victorian and New South Wales border from 2003, yes a long time ago.  This is inland about 9 hours from Sydney.  

Didn't take many photos with my digital camera because the 'cards' back then didn't hold a lot of photos.  There were not many places to take the cards to either to have the photos put on a Disc CD or DVD but not sure if DVD's were about then. Sometimes the places we went to didn't know what I was talking about.  In those days I didn't have a laptop either. To access email we had to go to an Internet Cafe whilst travelling.

Mildura is on the border of Victoria and New South Wales inland. There is a population of about 33,444 people.  There are river cruises on steam boats to be had.

The Church is St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Last two photos. The bridge at a place called Swan Hill not too far from Mildura, south east to be exact and it also situated on the border of Victoria and Swan Hill. 2 hours and 30 minutes drive.

I haven't shown these photos before, maybe the bridge, the last photo once, a long time ago.

Bendigo Cathedral Victoria

Sacred Heart Cathedral (a Catholic Church) was built of Sandstone in the mid to late 1800's, after a rest the Cathedral was completed in recent times being one of the largest Cathedral's in Australia.

Didn't visit the Cathedral this visit (2019) as there was a funeral.  The photos were taken several visits ago. 

Bendigo, Victoria

This is one mighty long caravan, people must live in it all the time, certainly not my cup of tea.

Bendigo in Victoria is a beautiful city with many old buildings, it's a busy city so therefore hard to get a photo of the buildings.

Bendigo was originally a gold rush boom town, and was home to the mid-1900s Central Deborah Gold Mine. The urban population is over 99,000 people making it the 4th largest inland city in Australia.

The fountain is beautiful and is in the middle of the road, hard to take a photo of it so it's taken through the window when travelling.

Part of a street to give some idea of the trees that line the side of some of the street.  An older building below, once again taken as travelling past.

The Chinese cemetery which is well looked after.  People buried here from the gold rush times and of course since I presume.

The old cemetery above, didn't get to see the lawn one.

Holden Cars

Holden Cars were made in Australia for years. The first was produced in 1948, the last in 2017.

The Holden museum in Echuca has many Holden cars which are owned by various Holden enthusiasts, these owners have done their cars up immaculately and display them in the museum for a time.  I enjoyed viewing them all, and was permitted to take photos.
The history and information of the Holden can be found [ here ]
 
I took photos of all the cars there but showing a few in this post and not in order.

A shop, house or two.

A few more shops and a couple of houses in Echuca, Victoria.
Next post there will be Holden cars from the Holden Museum in Echuca.

The Catholic School.

Above is a Motel a typical accommodation place for travellers.