Motor home trip to Lake Eucumbene and Young
Motorhome
We rented a motorhome this year. It’s a Mercedes Sprinter with all the fancy features like hot water and shower.
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Lake George
This was the view from Weereewa Lookout on the way to Canberra. I can’t remember the last time there was water in Lake George.
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Buckenderra
Buckenderra Caravan Park on Lake Eucumbene is my favourite place in NSW.
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A kangaroo couple.
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The caravan park is a very scenic place and we were pretty much the only people there.
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Lunch cooked on the trusty Trangia stove and Hillbilly frypan.
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Fly-Fishing
Met up with fly-fishing guru Steve. He told me, “you should have been here two weeks ago” 🙄. Nobody else at the caravan park was catching anything. Steve is such a generous person with his time and knowledge.
Steve said they were feeding on midges and required using a small midge nymph beneath a bead head to get the fly down. The fish were out about 20m from the shore.
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Steve casting.
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About 2 min into the fishing session my float indicator went down. After some concerns when the fish wrapped the line around some above-water vegetation, I landed this.
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Next cast.
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The autopsy showed they were actually feeding on worms rather than midges. That was probably why they weren’t on the bite as much as the previous day.
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Had them straight away for lunch.
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Cooma and Queanbeyan
It was a very foggy morning when we left Buckenderra for Queanbeyan.
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Stopped in Cooma for morning tea. I loved Dorothy Dickens Books and Music at 88 Sharp St Cooma, NSW, Australia 2630. Exactly what a bookshop should be.
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We stayed at the Riverside Caravan Park in Queanbeyan which can be seen in the distance. There was a domestic dispute in the middle of the night and the cops were called.
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It’s not far from the Mill Cafe which I remember from the time it was a second hand fishing bookshop with two floors of books.
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Went for a day trip to Young and picked cherries.
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At the end of the trip, had to undo this which was overtightened and I forgot to pack a shifting spanner. The Karabar Home Timber and Hardware refilled gas bottles but they didn’t have a spanner for this either! Ended up solving the problem on my second attempt using my large vise grips.
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Dinner on the last night was at the Royal Turban which was excellent.
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