Arthur & Carol Stroud's Travels

The mini horses are just gorgeous. Mum and daughter shown here. The Koala lives in a bunch of gum trees just 50m from the house.

Pictured are the villiage common, the bbq hut (happy hour venue) one of the roads near us, one of the cottages. There is a lovely large swimming pool where I go to water aerobics most days, the club house is large and is the venue for several sytles of dancing, there are two golf courses, a big auditorium with pool tables and carpet bowls. All sorts of things going. We are enjoying the varied company.

Called on old friends Neville and Sandy Green at Woombye. They were about to become grandparents for the first time. Their place is looking magnificent. I remember when they moved there from Sydney 35yrs or more ago. It was just an old farm house much in need of love,

We went camping with Des and Jennylee to the lake and about 20 of their friends and rellies joined us. We caught quite a few red claw not huge numbers. Lovely spot though.

This is the small dam on the property and our view from the bus. Lucky us.

We visited with Greg and Lorraine Nielsen (Greg is Arthurs nephew) at their new home at Emu Park

Des Jennylee Arthur and me YOU NEED TO CLICK ON THIS ONE - IT IS A MONTAGE

A great day at Emu Park. I think Des tried every type of beer and maybe more than once. It was great fun people watching and a very nice event where everyone was well behaved while having the best fun. Check out the boobs on us girls. They were a bit of fun and just went on like a bib.

Same day just a bit more down the road. Not so lucky this time We had to fit spare ourselves this time. After the Bus tyres episode and I had lost a front (cap) tooth I had bought a bottle of champagne at Alfa. We arrived at Sapphire to Arthurs sisters place and I was really glad of that bottle of sparkly stuff.

Luckily, some main roads people stopped and knew someone to ring in Alpha. Two guys came out, took both wheels off and after some time returned with the wheels wearing their brand new tyres and fitted them back on the bus. We had to do nothing and even better it was not as expensive as we thought it would be given out situation.

We were cat sitting Rastus who was the cutest kitten full of mischief, we loved him

Arthur with sisters Ruth and Marg and niece Lyndel who were visiting for the Giddens family reunion

We will be situated here for a couple of weeks while Anne and Warren go on holiday.

Some beautiful views, couldn't get over just how many people were there. A beautiful but very windy day.

We headed off to the creek early next morning and waited for a guy who did not come. We had hoped to get over while the other side was still dry as it is a lot steeper going up than on the way over. Lost of people went past till two families came, one had Landcruiser dual cab with a V8 Chev motor in it. They were coming in. They went back over and unhitched the tailer from the Toyota and he backed up to us and helped Arthur get it over without loosing momentum. It was really really scary. The guy went a lot faster than Arthur had hoped. I was on foot. But we made it and live to tell the story.

I had a swim. We had a very difficult time turning around and ended up camping at the entrance to the camp ground for the night.