It’s was dusk when I stopped for the night. I left home at 7:30 and I have had the most amazing day. Thought I would make it to Gundagai but Tarcutta is good. I’ll post some pic and maybe finish the writing later. Will see how I go. I have a takeaway hamburger and chips for dinner from what used to be the truckies roadhouse. Tarcutta was once the turnaround point for trucks as it was about half way between Melbourne and Sydney. Now that the Hume bypasses it it is no longer used. Anyway that’s where I am now in the Halfway Motel. And here are some pics. With the on again off again wifi I finally got through my day and jotted down to a quick line or two to explain. Will fill in the gaps later.

It was still grey when I left this morning but by the time I turned onto Melba Hwy the morning had cleared. I seemed to be chasing three hot air balloons which were coming into land at Yarra Glen. With white clouds resting on the mountains the morning really was picture postcard perfect.

Coming into Yea there was a market being set up so I couldn’t just drive on by

Believe it or not but Carters shop is the oldest in Yea and has some type of historic overlay and can’t be pulled down.

The above pics taken at the Flora Fossil site just out of Yea where they have found a plant fossil, known today as Baragwanathia which first appeared around 415 million years ago, at a time when Australia was still part of the Gondwana super continent. The fossils are the oldest of their kind in the world.

Cheviot Railway Tunnel.

There was a bumper sticker that said where the farck is Yarck. On the side of the pub it says here the farck is Yarck.

Euroa. Three local VC reciprents

This looked beautiful and as I was walking back over the bridge I noticed that the water was black.

The above building was built using the original handmade bricks from the bank which stood on this site. It was the one robbed by the Kelly gang as per the below shot

I loved Euroa. Beautiful town with so much history.

Rose garden in the Botanical gardens in Benalla

The Broken River Benalla

I tried to find the Broken River Hotel where Laurie worked 1983 1984 but there are no hotels left in the Main Street. I think I may have found it and it is now a newspower shop.

A mural from the wall of the hotel

Mural s from the wall of toilet block at the Mokoan Rest stop northbound just out of Benalla

Mural s from the Mokoan Rest Stop southbound

Glenrowan

National trust house in Chiltern where George Handel Richardson lived for 18 months

The oldest grapevine in the world according to the Guinness book of records planted 1867 at the vine hotel Chiltern

Chiltern, an historic town . Cute could nearly believe you were still in the 1950’s

The name says it all

Holbrook the submarine town

Tarcutta and the Lights On The Hill monument to all the truck drivers that have died in accidents.

My pit stop for the night. It’s been one amazing day and a gold star to anyone who made it to the end.