"Lucky Pigs" is the name given to our Winnebago motor-home by the previous owners who had friends from New Zealand who used to call them "Lucky Pegs" because they were living and traveling in the Winnebago around Australia as we are now doing. "Lucky Pigs" in New Zealand are equivalent to "Lucky Buggers" here in Australia. We decided to keep the existing name after purchasing it in February 2010.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
DARTMOOR
After refueling at Mt.Gambier (Diesel $1.34.9, Unleaded $1.39.9) we only travelled 48 kms today arriving at Dartmoor in Victoria around 2pm, where we had a look at the chainsaw carvings in the main street and parks. They have had statues carved out of trees by a chainsaw. The biggest one was a representation of children's nursery rhymes(see photo). A nice lady came out of her house to talk to us when she saw us looking at them to give us some brochures on them and we had a talk with her about them. We setup camp just down the road at "Fort O'Hare" which is the junction of two rivers and is historic because Mitchell (explorer) camped there in the 1800's. The camp was really good and there was plenty of little Blue Wrens, Kookaburras and even these ants that jump! Anyhow despite there being some mosquitoes there we had a peaceful night camped beside the Glenelg river. No TV and Mobile coverage was poor here.