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19 MARCH 2002<br />I've not been idle since the beginning of March. I'm a freelance photographer working for a few other photographers who engage me to do work for them sometimes. Since the last entry I have photographed a couple of weddings, a debutante ball and a scout presentation day.

Wentworth Trip

Colin Ewington
2006-03-16 10:34:34

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19 MARCH 2002
I've not been idle since the beginning of March. I'm a freelance photographer working for a few other photographers who engage me to do work for them sometimes. Since the last entry I have photographed a couple of weddings, a debutante ball and a scout presentation day.

The company I sub-contract for, give me by far the most work and again I'm on the road. I had been packed for a couple of days, so it didn't take long to get organised to leave this morning. It was an overcast morning and the peak hour traffic was heavy. But as I turned towards Lilydale I was pleased not so many cars were going in my direction. Yarra Glen quickly appeared in the windscreen and the rest of the journey through Yea and Seymour was through familiar territory. My plan was to travel through Bendigo and up to Charlton to continue the journey to Wentworth where I have been booked to work for the next three days.

Near the Puckapunyal turn off I came across a roadblock. The policeman informed me that a bushfire the previous day had blocked that stretch of the road. I turned the car and joined the Hume Freeway and went north to the Goulburn Highway. I tossed up whether to return to my original plan and take the Heathcote turn off at Nagambie. On checking the map, realised by going further north through Kyabram and Echuca, I could drive over new territory and mark off more on my travel map. The grey skies cleared and the temperature climbed as I got closer to the Victorian and New South Wales borders.

Different parts of the road near Echuca and Kerang were new for me and was duly marked. As was the area near Balranald. At the border town of Robinvale I crossed the Murray River by means of a long wooden bridge caped with bitumen. I then travelled the Sturt Highway to the Wentworth. I quickly found the Grand Resort motel. As I walked through the double glass doors and arranged to pick up my key at the reception, the complex reminded ...