Weird day Yesterday
The plan today, was to go horse riding. However, an inclement weather forecast, put a dampener to those plans.
A friend said that he was heading up to Lake Eildon.
So, with my family having their own plans, I ventured the 3 hour drive.
Lake Eildon is a massive lake. I had never been there, thinking it was a weekender place for small boats and hopeful fishing.
I was wrong. It is a massive lake system, with a huge dam, and runoff pondage area.
It suits anglers, with stocks of fish replenishing the lake, with species, such as trout & redfin.
House boats, which I will find on my next visit, have some with price tags of many millions of dollars.
So, I arrived at around 4 in the arvo, the twilight festival was just underway.
There were some food vans, live band & some market stalls.
The sun gave out plenty. In Melbourne, it was cold, cloudy & rainy, but here, over the ranges, it was warm.
My friend was partaking in a fishing competition, and was off somewhere around the lake. He, and his brother-in-law, ended up catching a redfin.
So, I enjoyed some wine & listening to the music.
The locals were very friendly and, when I caught up with my friend, we were hanging out with a group of locals, who work at an exclusive boat club, inviting us to take a look the next time we visit.
There was a jazz festival also running at another town, about 40 mins away. My friend, and his brother-in-law, wanted to see that.
So, we arrive there, watched a band play, which was quite good, finishing up near midnight.
Unfortinately, my phone was low on battery to take a pic, but I do recommend a visit to these country festivals.
We ended up at the brother-in-law's farm at about 2am, I had a quick snack, and jumped in my sleeping bag ( I had brought my tent just in case I had no where to sleep) but there was a small place I could crash.
The sleep was a little rough. I decided not to stick around in the morning, as I wanted tk get back to the family.
My friend sent me a picture of the breakfast I was missing out on...
Shame! It looks good.
Anyway, the morning drive was beautiful.
Down the farm driveway...
and through the forest...
A beautiful Sunday morning drive.
The only downer was the traffic back in suburbia.
Lake Eildon. Worth a visit and I plan to come back.
I'm @jagged
!steemitworldmaps -37.242963 lat 145.897452 long Lake Eildon Pondage
love the work you put in this post! keep them coming
thank you. i feel my blogging improving. so grateful to Steemit and Steemians.
Congratulations, Your Post Has Been Added To The Steemit Worldmap!
Author link: http://steemitworldmap.com?author=jagged
Post link: http://steemitworldmap.com?post=weird-day-yesterday
Want to have your post on the map too?
Add the following inside your post:
!steemitworldmap xxx lat yyy long description d3scr
(replace xxx and yyy with latitude and longitude)
This post recieved an upvote from minnowpond. If you would like to recieve upvotes from minnowponds team on all your posts, simply FOLLOW @minnowpond.
Congratulations @jagged! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honor on SteemitBoard.
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOP!originalworks
The @OriginalWorks bot has determined this post by @jagged to be original material and upvoted it!
To call @OriginalWorks, simply reply to any post with @originalworks or !originalworks in your message!
For more information, Click Here!
Special thanks to @reggaemuffin for being a supporter! Vote him as a witness to help make Steemit a better place!