The plan was to meet at 3.30 at Bendigo and continue on to the Echuca on the Murray River.
I, would take a drive around Ballarat before heading off to find someone to cut off part of the handle above the toe ball, to allow me to open the rear car door. Its difficult to lean and rummage around over the back seats to find and drag things out. Found a steal place right next door to a petrol garage I was about fill up at, at the opposite end of town. Charged me $10 for the 5 minute job and I left with a smile on my dial....
I drove through Daylesford, where Slingshot was visiting, a really pretty town, then toward Castlemain but just before reaching there I seen an interesting book shop and quickly pulled over. Every book half price and I found a couple of real Australian history gems.
Reaching Bendigo, a lovely large town, much nicer than Ballarat. I passed the very large Bendigo Bank building and settled back to wait for Slingshot in the city park. A pretty spot with many variety of duck that Ruby would love to chase.
Slingshot had had a problem by leaving her bag at her daughters place and not realizing until she had reached the book shop I had text her about and there, did a U turn back to Daylesford for the 30 minute drive to retrieve it. Texting between us to keep in touch, I continued out of Bendigo about another 20ks to escape the noisy traffic.
Slingshot caught up with me about 4.30 and after a quick discussion, we decided to give Echuca a miss as time is short for Slingshot needs to be back in Sydney by Friday.
After her misfortune with her bag Slingshot wanting to get as many kilometers between her and Daylesford and head in an easterly direction to pick up the Murray River. It was turning into a long day for her and when she seen that we passed a sign to Greens Lake, another free camp I had spoken of from 'The Grey Nomad' website we turned around and drove in for the night.
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