Woomerlang VIC

Camp packed up, caravan hitched up and it was over to Woomerlang. This town started as Cronomby Tanks after the natural water holes that attracted pioneer settlers to the area. The name was changed in 1897. Cronomby Tanks Ponds is now a free camping area. Where we camped was in town and is a donation Caravan Park with room for two caravans with free powered sites and just enough room for two juicy vans non-powered. The amenities are spotless and one has a shower.

We have come this way to help out our mate Glen whose father passed away last year. He was an avid collector of cars, trucks and machinery and the time had come to clear out the house paddock of vehicles and other bits and pieces to the front paddock and get them set up for auction. So in eight days with eight to ten people, an old grey tractor, a fork lift truck with extendable arm, a low jack semitrailer capable of moving three cars at a time, two 6x4 trailers and two car trailers we managed to move and set up in rows 130 cars (most with flat tires) and too many piles of unrecognisable car parts, we have called it quits. Mostly incident free but for one brown snake, two rabbit hole mishaps and a run away car trailer with three of the gals (one of them was me) sitting on the back. The car trailer was not connected properly (Glen) to the tow vehicle and popped off, because we were on private property we didn't worry about safety chains, Glen kept driving unaware and we ran into what was not a bad looking Valiant, smashing the tail light and denting the fin. No casualties just a lot of laughter.

The Boss ????

The Work Gang 

The Crash

Still under investigation!!

As outsiders we were stunned to find out about another property, much smaller thank God, that had a large shed and two old rain tanks full of stuff as well as more cars at the small locality of Watchupga. We moved a few more cars out to the main farm, and when the auctioneer had seen what we had done he said his guys would take care of collecting all the stuff from Watchupga and would set it all up at the farm.

Yes we did not make it up,

We were fortunate enough to have an Angel looking after us in the form of Glen and Katina's Auntie Trish, a lovely lady but one I do not want to get on the bad side of. Not only did she look after Katrina and Dave's kids while we were at the farm she had prepared lunch and dinner every day, as well as snacks to keep us going.

Auntie Trish with Glen

Everyone was in agreement that we would have Friday off as we had called it quits and the temperature was going to soar to 47 degrees celsius. We  went early in the morning to checkout "The Tough As Iron" art work at Cronomby Tanks. It is a display of corrugated iron and flat iron depicting scenes from pioneering days to modern times, they are constructed from metal used to build the town.

Another interesting site is the shearing shed built from flattened kerosene tins during WWII due to the wartime shortages of resources.

One other site to see is the mural of a snake painted on the side of the cafe which also serves as the grocery store, bank, takeaway, and the post office, according to locals it is the wrong snake as the snake depicted it is not found in the Yarriambiack Shire.

After exploring Woomelang we went to Sea Lake  to see Lake Tyrall which also a pink lake, and is more pink in colour than the one near Dimboola.