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West to Mildura

4th November While it is not officially a long weekend there are many people who must have taken an RDO or other leave today to make it a 4 day break with Melbourne Cup tomorrow. We took about 2 hours to get to Robinvale where I had found a likely bush camp site on the banks of the Murray down Pump Rd. Problem was we drove down Pump Road until we found a 'No Entry, Authorized Vehicles Only' sign. The turn to the right was closed due to a bridge under repair. With limited room to turn we made the silly mistake of driving ahead to the gates thinking we would have turning room. Wrong! That meant a long back up and then turning in the limited area anyway. Talk about compounding a mistake! Get out and walk it next time. Discouraging us from doing that was the heavy rain we had just driven through and the threat of more approaching. To say the skies were inclement would be an understatement.  On a happier note we haved moved on to the letter H in music titles. In town we found