Clare Road Trip Day 2

We left Wagga Wagga at about 9.30am and continued the next leg of our journey to Mildura. Deano and Leo whom we had met at Christmas time were grape picking in Mildura and Kesha another friend of the Girl’s worked in a pizza restaurant so we had decided beforehand to stay the night there and pay them all a visit. On the long drive there we stopped at a little town called Hay where we enjoyed lunch in an old style cafe, it had car reg plates and old style posters up everywhere. The lady there was very friendly and even advised us to move our car as we had parked into a bay facing the kerb but apparently the law says you have to have your car facing the road.



After the quick stop we carried on with our trip. Again there was nothing much to see on the way, just lots of fields and on occasion another car or two. We arrived at Mildura at 4.30pm and had booked into the caravan park that Deano and Leo were staying at. Our cabin turned out to very different to the one we had stayed in the night before. As the past couple of days had been very hot (40c) air conditioning was a must, but this run down, old unit was very cramped, the air conditioning was useless and whatever little cold air did come out seemed to escape through the massive gap in the front door which didn’t close properly. But we were only staying the night and the bed looked ok so we made do. We emptied the car and went to find Deano and Leo who were playing table tennis . We chatted with them for a while and asked how they were getting on with the grape picking.



They told us of how picking in the heat was hard work, early starts and only getting $1.20 per bucket and sometimes only picking 10 buckets an hour. They also mentioned how they had seen a red back spider whilst lounging next to the pool one day which was a normal occurrence. Country life was definitely starting to sound less appealing. After catching up on what we had all been up to they showed us the caravan they were living in. Their caravan looked old and tired and really should have been knocked down. They were paying $50 a week between 4 of them to live in a hell hole which had no air conditioning. Now im prepared to put up with some things but having to sleep in 30c heat at night with no air conditioning is just unbearable! A little later we decided to visit the city centre and try and see if we could connect to the internet at the local Macdonalds as our 3USB stick no longer had a signal we were definitely in the middle of nowhere now. We popped into Macdonalds but the wireless didn’t work so as it was dinner time now went to find the Pizza cafe that Kesha worked at. 

The Pizza Cafe was very busy which was a good sign and we saw Kesha who sat us down at our table. We had a quick catch up but as she was working couldn’t talk for long. We enjoyed our meal and after saying bye to Kesha and then later to the boys went to bed.