Duz Us: MILDURA

We booked into the Buronga Family Caravan Park. Wow, what a nice park. Very spacious between vans, interesting gardens with lots of different plaster animals themed in different gardens as well as colourful flags waving in the breezes alongside the Murray River. Look across to the Mildura CBD wharf and riverfront. Here for the week ending 24th March where we will travel to Swan Hill for a couple of nights.

Plenty of ducks, two geese and black swans wandering around the grounds

This reminds me of Joe!

Cooling off in the second pool in the Caravan Park.

Aren't these bronze statues depict the "family leisure time so well".

After visiting the Information Centre to read the local history and take in all the displays we found the Port of Mildura Wharf and drove along the Hugh King Drive to the Old Mildura Homestead to stroll through the grounds, house, shearing shed (which holds functions) and stables and horse yards. It really takes one back to those times of history.

We stayed here in Mildura for a week to catch-up on this blog, look at other places of interest and you can read and also met up at last with cousin Brenda who was travelling through in "Ice Queen". So wonderful to see you if only for 10-15 minutes. And yes, we will be getting a better lifestyle for ourselves thanks to you.

Some interesting Mildura fast facts I think worth knowing:-
The Mildura region grows the following percentages of Australia's fresh produce:
* Almost 100% of australia's dried vine fruit (98%)
* 75% table grapes
* 69% almonds
* 48% pistachios
* 24% citrus
* 20% of wine grape crush
* 13% carrots
* 9% asparagus

Treated ourselves to lunch at the Riverfront Cafe - Docks.ide Cafe to this yummy trio of seafood platter.