Travelling Around

  It's mid winter here and it is wet and cold and as I have said before I would much prefer the summer, but it is winter and I try to make the most of it.  Most other years we try to get away from the cold weather and head to the north but as travelling is still a bit of a gamble we have stayed put.  We have friends who have travelled north to Queensland and now with the lockdowns they are not sure when they will get back home. We have had a few day trips out and as I have been having trouble walking, it has been great to go out in the car to just get out of the house.   One of our day trips a few weeks ago was to Milang, about 70km from home. The old blacksmith building in Milang Milang is a lovely little town on the shores of Lake Alexandrina.  It is now more of a holiday destination and only around 800 permanent residents live there.  Our family used to have a holiday house  shack on the foreshore and we all learnt to water ski when we stayed there in summer holidays.  Now ther