Boodarai's photos with the keyword: Birchip

Back to Birchip and then onwards to Mildura. We passed our overnight stop, the Birchip Hotel, once again.

We've been thinking about how to use less concrete when making supports for heavy farm things and this is quite a good idea.

The four photos did not join up perfectly, but you get the idea. Everyone in Birchip told us about the beauty of Tchum Lake, so we drove the 7km to see it. It was not quite what we were expecting, but in a landscape so dry and crunchy and bleak, it is a little oasis indeed.

Birchip, triple prize winning home of the "Great Australian Vanilla Slice" competition. We had one and both agreed it was the best we had ever had in Australia. (No claims to the best mille feuille.)

Even the Mallee Bull itself seems surprised to be here.

Birchip is proud of its bigger-than-life-size "Mallee Bull", which is weird as this is not cattle country and not really even in the Mallee. This is still Wimmera, isn't it?

We stopped for the night in Birchip, to visit Lyndon and Jess, and to rest up for Mungo. We stayed in the lovely old Birchip Hotel. ($80 for a double with a very comfy bed)