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Wedderburn, Inglewood and Bridgewater
June 18, 2016
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Today marks two weeks until the election and I spent the morning in Wedderburn, Victoria. I had breakfast at the cafe within the Wedderburn Hotel, then headed to the Wedderburn Community House and Information Centre where Pauline - who said she doesn't live in town but volunteers at the Info Centre on weekends - told me a bit about the community centre and a lot about local tourism opportunities.
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She also allowed me to have a look at the community garden, as well as the pizza oven and replica bark settlers hut, both recently built as part of the 'work for the dole' program.
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I then moved on to Inglewood where I stopped off at the Eucy Distillery Museum and had a chat about the history of the facility and their plans for the future. They're currently in talks to get the old Cliff and Bunting traction engine back home from Scienceworks.
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Whilst in Inglewood I had lunch at the Empire State Hotel, before doing a little letter-boxing and chatting to the owners of the Old Curiosity Shop and Fusspots Vintage Collectables Old Wares about the town and where they'd like it to go.
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Next I stopped off at the Bridgewater Bakehouse before heading into Bendigo to visit a mate who recently moved back to Victoria after stints in WA and QLD working as a scaffolder, during the mining boom and subsequent slowdown. He's back home now, doing a Solar Electrical apprenticeship which has taken him right across the region, including towns in the electorate of Murray, like Stanhope, Nathalia, Korong Vale and as far away as Piangil.