December 19
Well today's blog will be coming to you from the newest member of the hobo team, Matilda. yess it is I the wooden duck, The reason I am writing this blog and not Adam is because he is still in bed, as is Christian. Neither one of them seems willing to move at the moment. The only thing discernible that either have said so far was about bright lights and killer headaces. I beleive they are suffering from a condition you humans call a hangover. I don't really know what they are, I have never had one, after all I am made out of wood. I think it was caused when last night Adam and Chris ran into these guys on a houseboat who invited them on for a couple drinks. I think they were a work crew celebrating their Christmas party, but I am not sure, they left me here in the tent, all I know is that they came back very late, Chris wearing a tie with a leather vest and Adam was wearing a pink button up shirt. They were both singing Waltzing Matilda. I can't tell you much more yet, as I said they still be sleeping. So before my crew abandoned me for a houseboat the other day we spent the day wondering around Moldura exploring the city. It is about 20,000 people, so just a nice size place founded believe it or not by a pair of Canadian brothers. Everything up here is based on the Murray river, irrigation, all the towns drinking water, hydro-electric dams, the wildlife, everything. What you may not know is that the river is in major trouble, because of all the development, and draw on the river, the natural cycle of the river has been destroyed, and now with this 10 year drought, it is really starting to show. The water level doesn't look so bad, but that is because they keep the river dammed up using locks so that it doesn't dry up. If you are ever in Muldura be sure to jump on the P.S. Melbourne, an actually steam paddle wheeler, very cool apparently, but it didn't run yesterday, so we couldn't ride on it. Ok, boys finally moving now, will finish blog tonight when Adam not looking.
Ok, back now
We followed the course of the Murray river and stopped in a little place called Blanchtown, where they actually have a real paddle steamer ,
they even have the boiler and that exposed so you can see how it runs, really cool. We also crossed into Southern Australia where they have perminent fruit fly check quarentine. Which meant at the border we had to dispose of all our fruit, which was a full box of oranges we got from Micks neighbour, shucks hu? It turns out you are not allowed to carry fruit through state borders, so that fruit fly's don't spread. Yet when we went to the supper markets here the fruit on the shelves came from Victoria, Adam made a comment that it was a lot of B.S. Anyway in Swan Reach we watched a documentary on the Murray river and how it has been changed by humans, and all the problems that now face the river. One thing I personally learned was that this water comes from as far away as Northern Queensland, in NE Australia, it goes a really long ways. Anyway tonight we camping on river again beside Swan Reach, we had to cross the river on a Ferry to get here. 
Anyway, goodinght.
Well today's blog will be coming to you from the newest member of the hobo team, Matilda. yess it is I the wooden duck, The reason I am writing this blog and not Adam is because he is still in bed, as is Christian. Neither one of them seems willing to move at the moment. The only thing discernible that either have said so far was about bright lights and killer headaces. I beleive they are suffering from a condition you humans call a hangover. I don't really know what they are, I have never had one, after all I am made out of wood. I think it was caused when last night Adam and Chris ran into these guys on a houseboat who invited them on for a couple drinks. I think they were a work crew celebrating their Christmas party, but I am not sure, they left me here in the tent, all I know is that they came back very late, Chris wearing a tie with a leather vest and Adam was wearing a pink button up shirt. They were both singing Waltzing Matilda. I can't tell you much more yet, as I said they still be sleeping. So before my crew abandoned me for a houseboat the other day we spent the day wondering around Moldura exploring the city. It is about 20,000 people, so just a nice size place founded believe it or not by a pair of Canadian brothers. Everything up here is based on the Murray river, irrigation, all the towns drinking water, hydro-electric dams, the wildlife, everything. What you may not know is that the river is in major trouble, because of all the development, and draw on the river, the natural cycle of the river has been destroyed, and now with this 10 year drought, it is really starting to show. The water level doesn't look so bad, but that is because they keep the river dammed up using locks so that it doesn't dry up. If you are ever in Muldura be sure to jump on the P.S. Melbourne, an actually steam paddle wheeler, very cool apparently, but it didn't run yesterday, so we couldn't ride on it. Ok, boys finally moving now, will finish blog tonight when Adam not looking.
Ok, back now
We followed the course of the Murray river and stopped in a little place called Blanchtown, where they actually have a real paddle steamer ,
they even have the boiler and that exposed so you can see how it runs, really cool. We also crossed into Southern Australia where they have perminent fruit fly check quarentine. Which meant at the border we had to dispose of all our fruit, which was a full box of oranges we got from Micks neighbour, shucks hu? It turns out you are not allowed to carry fruit through state borders, so that fruit fly's don't spread. Yet when we went to the supper markets here the fruit on the shelves came from Victoria, Adam made a comment that it was a lot of B.S. Anyway in Swan Reach we watched a documentary on the Murray river and how it has been changed by humans, and all the problems that now face the river. One thing I personally learned was that this water comes from as far away as Northern Queensland, in NE Australia, it goes a really long ways. Anyway tonight we camping on river again beside Swan Reach, we had to cross the river on a Ferry to get here. Anyway, goodinght.Love Matilda
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