It's Monday and we're on the road again and headed to Warracknabeal on the Yarriambiack Creek. A slightly bigger town than Dimboola, but still has that quaint charm about it.The towns history is represented by two visual displays in the main street, they are the iconic Kelpy dog rounding up the sheep and a Kelpy guarding the sacks of grain. Meanwhile at the best ever second hand store we have been to so far, everything had a section to be in and it was huge. We bought a cake tin (because I forgot I needed one to cook the chocolate cake for the rum balls), a couple of books and two hessian bags. Got Griffo's Chrissy present at John & Johnno's Hardware and Sporting goods (hope he likes his torch!). That about sums up Warracnabeal.
The next day we moved onto Japarit, a really small town with a population of 477, but what a history it has. We were unaware as our readers may also not know it is the birthplace of Sir Robert Menzies.
He was born on 20th December 1894 and was the fourth of five children to James and Kate who ran the local shop. It was humble beginings for the great leader he became, founder of the Liberal Party and two times Prime Minister 1939-1941 and 1949-1966.
We stayed at the caravan park just a short walk into town. What a difference lovely lush green grass, water available if you need to fill the tanks, clean amenities and one of the cheapest washing machines we have come across, nice to pay $1.20 instead of $4.00. We met a lovely couple (the only other campers) Margret and Jim, they have been traveling around the land of Oz for the last thirteen years and have seen all but a small part of Australia., a really small,
Japarit is also on the Wimmera River and feeds into Lake Hindmarsh, the river is low so not much water is making it way into the lake and what does make its way that far soon evaporates as the lake is a shallow but large body of water. During our exploration of the river we found the weir and stumbled upon the original train trestle bridge as well as the trestle bridge for the road crossing, both are now closed due to deterioration but are still standing.
The next day we moved onto Japarit, a really small town with a population of 477, but what a history it has. We were unaware as our readers may also not know it is the birthplace of Sir Robert Menzies.
He was born on 20th December 1894 and was the fourth of five children to James and Kate who ran the local shop. It was humble beginings for the great leader he became, founder of the Liberal Party and two times Prime Minister 1939-1941 and 1949-1966.
We stayed at the caravan park just a short walk into town. What a difference lovely lush green grass, water available if you need to fill the tanks, clean amenities and one of the cheapest washing machines we have come across, nice to pay $1.20 instead of $4.00. We met a lovely couple (the only other campers) Margret and Jim, they have been traveling around the land of Oz for the last thirteen years and have seen all but a small part of Australia., a really small,
Japarit is also on the Wimmera River and feeds into Lake Hindmarsh, the river is low so not much water is making it way into the lake and what does make its way that far soon evaporates as the lake is a shallow but large body of water. During our exploration of the river we found the weir and stumbled upon the original train trestle bridge as well as the trestle bridge for the road crossing, both are now closed due to deterioration but are still standing.
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