We are thinking about advertising our new business "Drought in your area?, need rain?, invite us to your caravan park!" Since leaving Queensland it has rained two out of three days. I don't think it has rained in Shepparton for months if not years - it's bucketing down at the moment, and the locals are cheering - can't complain, it keeps the fire danger down.
Shepparton is a pretty big town, the usual indicators, KFC, McD's, Red Rooster, Burger King are all here. Also the home of Campbells soups and the biggest brand supermarket in Australia, SPC. This part of northern Victoria is very lush (irrigation from the Murray and other rivers) with huge crop paddocks and a good scattering of SHEEP!. There is not a lot of bush, and it reminds us of parts of south Canterbury. We will be here until Thursday and today we are going to one of the local malls to do a bit of shopping and browse around out of the wet.
Wednesday 14 Oct
Well here we are still at Shepparton (in between showers). Went to the Campbells Soup factory shop just out of Shepp with our begging bowls, and bought 14 pottles and cans of our favourite soups at $2.20 each. This afternoon returned to the nearby mall and phoned home to grandad. That's the day gone. Leaving here tomorrow and going back north on the Hume highway to Tallangatta on Lake Hume. One very odd thing about this area is that there are no kookaburras, crows, parrots, rosellas, but instead, sparrows, blackbirds and willy wagtails (fantail).
