Finally heading North - Wagga Wagga, Australia
Wagga Wagga, Australia
Where I stayed
Wikins Park
What I did
Farm Where I did most work
I spent 4 weeks in Wagga (Wagga Wagga to non locals), in March/April 2012 as a volunteer with BlazeAid based at the Scout Camp about 7km east of Wagga. During this time I worked on 5 different properties repairing or rebuilding fences that had been damaged (or washed away in many cases) by the 2011 floods. As a result I was keen to contact several great local people encountered during the vollie work.
I finally collected my glasses and hit the road at 11:30. I stopped for a quick lunch at the roadhouse just north of Glenrowan, then on to Wangaratta to visit with an elderly cousin, then some friends, but they were both quick visits.
I had decided to travel to Wagga via Holbrook as the media was saying that all the new roadworks were complete and no traffic lights all the way to Sydney, so it should be an easier drive. Well they almost got it right, it is all done except for the Holbrook bypass, and the new stuff was good, so I was pleased to have gone that way. I stopped for 5 minutes in Holbrook and took a couple of photos of the Sprinter with the submarine in the background.
I arrived atWagga just on dark and first went to the scout camp, but there was no one there. So I stayed in the Wilks free camping park, just north of the river in Wagga. It was very hot so I went for a walk up town for 30 mins, but that just made me hotter. It was 28 deg at 8pm, so not suitable for an early night, so I read a bit and did a few Sudoku's, but I got gypped as the supposed Diabolical that I have done so far were not really in the hard category.
The night eventually cooled a bit but it was still >21 deg at 6am the next morning.