After topping up with diesel ($1.56.9)at Wodonga we crossed the River Murray into New South Wales to take a look at Albury, which is quite a nice city and has grand old shops as well as many modern ones. It was a lot bigger than we had imagined and we had a little bit of trouble trying to find the road out to the Hume Weir as we had to cross over the top of the Hume Freeway to travel the 15kms. to the famous weir across the River Murray (photo). The lake formed behind the weir is called Lake Hume and we travelled below the weir across the River past the army barracks where I think my
brother Colin was based for awhile when he first joined the army many years ago. We pulled up at
a great little campsite, (recomended to us by a lady traveller we met at one of our previous camps near Cobram) around on the shoreline of Lake Hume called "Ludlows Reserve". It is a grassed reserve with free electric BBQs and toilets as well as a couple of boat ramps. We both had to help a 82 year old fisherman soon after arriving as he had a heart turn just as he was getting out of his dinghy and collapsed into the water, but all was well when the ambulance arrived from Wodonga only 15 minutes later and took him to the hospital there. We also helped a local chap who was having trouble with his "Mariner" outboard boat motor. TV and Phone coverage is good here but Vodafone wireless internet is very poor and we are only about 20kms. south east of Albury\Wodonga and 22kms from Tallangatta, which is a town they had to move 8kms further up the road when they increased the capacity of Lake Hume in 1956.
