Torra

On our way just after 10am...After looking up some camp sites we decided to head to a place called Woodside Beach..once again the owners assuring us they could fit a 10 metre RV in ...when we got there we found this not to be true... gawdddd how many more times... plus the place was a dump...and they wanted to charge $38 night and no water ( they only had bore water) which she forgot to tell us when we booked...We looked this Park up on the internet as we do everytime before we ring and it looked great..it really disheartens you..when it keeps happening...

Anyway enough whinging... we moved on...I got the computer out and we travelled on a bit more to a place called Torra just outside Yurram...tiny town...They managed to fit us in...Thank goodness as John was getting tired of driving we had been on the road about 4 hours...

Torra is a small picturesque dairy town in Western Gippsland it is located 197 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, it is a small town surrounded by undulating hills which are primarily used for dairying. The word 'toora' is said to be an Aboriginal instruction which translates as 'woman, look after fire'. It was reputedly used regularly when the men in the group departed for religious ceremonies at Wilsons Promontory.

Toora was originally known as Muddy Creek. The township's early economic prosperity was based around a timber mill until the 1870s. This was partly ensured by a contract with the Indian government to produce railway sleepers. The sleepers were made at Toora and conveyed to offshore ships by barges. Remnants of the loading facilities and tramlines can still be seen.

The original settlement  was located to the west of the present townsite. A post office opened there in 1882. The new site for Toora was subdivided in 1888 after one of the largest tin mines Victoria has had began operations that same year.  A huge hole in the ground, now obscured by plant life was created by hydraulic sluicing operations which transported water from the Dingo and Agnes Creeks to the mines. Excavations stopped in the 1930s during the Great Depression and it never reopened.

Tomorrow we plan on exploring around the area see what we can find..