Swifts Creek

Wow, what a road. Plenty of sweeping corners, where's a bike when you would like one. Swifts Creek is on the Tambo River, 70k West and slightly North of Bruthen. We arrived yesterday morning in the pouring rain.... today was absolutely stunning... what a differnce a day makes.

We looked up a mate from my PNG past. Tony ("Bones") Skelton has been flying in PNG since Noah was a boy. You think I've got stories, well he's got many, many more. Tony grew up here behind what is now the IGA and still lives just West at a place called Bindi. His father Les, turns 98 shortly, and still lives at home, although he's slowing down a little, he's still sharp as a tack.

Anyway, back to my story....I didn't have Tony's number but knew his father was involved with the Tambo Valley Golf Course. We found the web site and spoke to Neil. "Are you after Tony?", yep "here's his and his Dad's details". We caught up and spent a great afternoon and evening looking around his spread and the golf course. We had a great game of golf with Deb and Trevor this morning.
As it turns out the town has about 400 residents and if you looked at the honour board at the Club, you'd say they were mainly related to 5 or so families... the men folk are obviously quite prodigious!

The camp ground is $14/night for a powered site, so we've stayed for two. Hot showers, right on the river, very well maintained as everything in town is.

Later, we dropped in to the IGA to book the second night "You caught up with Tony eh?", "Oh, Deb dropped by earlier".... small town eh!


The Vic government is spending about $10m setting up their fire base here so this little town is going to around for a long, long time....

We'll likely come back in January

We're off into the Alps tomorrow. Need to decide on:

1. Omeo, Hotham, Bright or,
2. Omeo, Anglers Rest, Mitta Mitta, Mt Beauty, Bright or,
3. Omeo, Anglers Rest, Falls Creek, Bogong, Mt Beauty, Bright.

Well tomorrow's another day...