Well the football & netball season has started & that means at least 8 hours at the netball looking after my girls, and sometimes girls from other teams. It's a fun day really but a long one and as one gets older the head and back play up more and more.
The girls really enjoy playing and its good to know I am responsible for their well being on the field, I'm unsure for how many more years I will be able to do it, but whilst I can I suppose I will.
The 'Gregorian Track' has been extended yet again, not quite finished yet but it's well on the way. There is a lot of hard work done and lots more to do yet, but in the end it will definitely be worth it for all those people who wish to get some exercise safely, me included. I have looked and planned the final stage all the way to the caravan park, but there is a problem that I'm unsure if I will be able to remedy. Two rather deep 'cuttings' plus a couple who have two Alsatian dogs that don't like people and the people don't particularly want a path going past their house even though the path is on public land. Oh well what will be will be!
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Travelers towing caravans around Australia should think twice about going to Benalla with their caravan. For more than ten years my partner and I fought to have the town allocate caravan parking areas for tourists, in the end there were two such spaces allotted, 'in a busy car-park'. It was pointed out to the relevant authorities that the spots are to small and to hard to park all but the smallest caravans. The caravan spots are some 300 plus meters from the present 'tourist information' building, never ideal for the elderly or in-firmed.
Another major problem facing caravaners is the fact that the council does not police the two caravan spots, but allows 'all and sundry' to park in these two spaces. It would appear that touists are not encouraged, in fact I have heard 'from the horses mouth' that the council didn't deem Benalla to be a tourist destination, and so didn't need to put in place any tourist infrastructure.
We have also tried for many years to have a tourist bike path put into place to join up those already in place,and being built, in other areas of the North East of Victoria. And the answer has consistently been 'we are not a tourist destination' or we haven't got the money. The Victorian Government has, over the past years, poured millions of dollars into other areas of the state for the very same type of bike paths as we have been wanting for Benalla.
So whilst there is a wonderful man-made lake in Benalla and other splendid tourist destinations in the area, think twice if you have a caravan or wish to cycle around the area.
Caravaners are generally a very astute group of people, and if the are not made welcome they 'go somewhere else' to spend their money. Benalla is missing out on an enormous amount of tourist dollars, and rightly so. So as I said, think twice before making Benalla a stop over.