Next
day was pack and drive, this time through the Snowy River countryside where the
scenery was just magical. Beautiful
expanses of green paddocks and stringy barks just as you would imagine. We called into Orbust, stopping at the information
centre for a quick look. The building was
actually the old town’s blacksmith, an old rickety timber cottage. It was nothing like the big information
centres you would find in major towns.
The man attending the desk inside gave us his opinion on where to head
to next but we were heading across the border today and back into New South Wales. We stopped at one point on the outskirts of Orbost
to admire the view over the Marlo which is where the Snowy River meets and
flows into the Southern Ocean. Upon continuing
our drive and arriving back into New South Wales, we pulled up at the sign as
we crossed the border and took one more final lot of border-crossing photos. As we arrived at Eden, we found a great
little caravan park which had the pool, putt putt golf, jumping castle and
tv/games room. The weather wasn’t great
while we were there but we did have the occasional patches of lovely sunny
weather to enjoy the last few days of our “holiday”.
Saturday
morning we headed out to explore a little and did a few good walks of the
area. Whale harpooning was big in the
area and there is an amazing story about “Old Tom”. We visited the Whale Trail site where Old Tom
would swim the waters. We also visited the
Eden Museum where Old Tom’s story and skeleton remains, it is definitely worth
another visit one day. I think the kids
had seen enough museums at this stage as they sat and played in the toy area
for most of our visit, becoming more interested only when we walked through the
shop area on the way out. We added a bit
of life to things when we returned to the caravan park and headed for the
jumping pillow for a bit of family fun.
Tiring but yes fun…..
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