Day 1 Tiki tour 2026

Today I drove up to Melbourne and picked up Raewyn from the airport, once sorted we drove to Echuca. We finally found our accommodation and had a cuppa, we have a great view

Late afternoon and the cockatoos have come in, it is quite noisy

There is a guitarist playing at the pub over the road 

We then had a walk down to the river and a quick look at the paddle steamers

We checked out the flood levels

And found the thong tree

These ones might have been through a flood.

On the way back to the motel we found the ice cream shop and indulged!!

Back at the motel now for dinner and an early night!

More tiki touring in the morning.

Happy stitching.

Scrub Stitching Sunday and goodbye

It is the last day and always hard to say goodbye to the ladies you have spent time with. Some ladies had to leave early as they had a long drive home, we also heard there was 53ml rain drop out in the direction Chooky lived,  so some concern whether people would get home or not.

These ladies were around for the final photo

our on the steps at the showgrounds.

Today was pack up day, my machine was in the car so some hand stitching was done, hubby was ready to go by mid morning, so we headed off to Coonabarrabran.

We stopped for a coffee stop and driver change over, I grabbed the opportunity to get a photo of the clock tower and hotel.

We stayed in Parks over night,  no photos as I didn't do anything other than a bit of hand stitching

Some amazing cloud the next day

The second night we stayed in Tocumwal on the Murray River, this cod was down beside the river.

I had a ride along a path on the river bank, lots of people camping on the other side

Off I go, actually the path only went to the old bridge, not long but was good to have  look around.

Two WW2 guns, a memorial and a pine tree grown from a seed taken from lone Pine on the Gallipoli Peninsular.

The old bridge

And the view from the old bridge with some fishermen heading home up the river.

We got home the next day to find the renovations are well and truly under way

A round trip of 2260km!

Kitchen gone! And so it starts.

Happy stitching.