Leaving Macorna they travelled onto Pyramid Hills and Gunbower.   From Gunbower they followed the Murray through Echuca, Cobram and Yarrawonga.   At Yarrawonga they crossed the border to Corowa, travelled onto Walbundrie and eventually arrived at Ryan where Bonnie Doon was situated.

The following are a few things Claude Sherwood remembers his mother and father telling him about the trip.

When we left Nhill to come to the Culcairn district I wasn't quite one and Syd was two years and two months.   I would say Mum must have had her hands full as we travelled in the wagon with a cover over it, like you see in the movies.   It took six weeks to make the trip.   It was very dry in 1912 coming across from Nhill and getting water was one of the hard things to get.   Some people were carting water themselves, and some wouldn't let people have any.

I remember hearing Dad say he asked one bloke if he could water the horses at his dam, he said "No if I did I might be short myself", so he had to go another 3 or 4 miles to the next place.   He said the old chap there said "My boy if I've got a drop of water in my dam your horses are as much entitled to it as mine".   The wagon was heavily loaded as he had to bring chaff for the horses and as much farming implements as he could load onto the wagon. Some of the things he brought were, the drill, harrases, scoop and plough.   Things that couldn't get on were sold before leaving.   The heavy things were put on the bottom and the chaff put on top so our beds were made on the chaff. There were two other families coming to Culcairn at that time.   Although they left after we did they caught us at Echuca and travelled to Yarrawonga and then went ahead as Dad had to spell the horses.

Dad only had 4 horses and they had 8 horses on their wagons. Mum did the cooking in the camp oven and frying pan that Grandfather Henderson had when he was driving a bullock team before he was married.

Although they said I took my first steps at Donald and had my first birthday at Charlton, I must have been still doing a bit of crawling as Mum said she heard me howling one night when she was cooking the tea and looked around and Syd had a piece of wire around my neck and was riding me for a horse. Another day a farmer's wife gave Mum a basket of eggs. She put them down while she got tea ready when she looked to see where we were; Syd had broke about half the eggs over my head.   They were the crook things he did to me. But on the good side he saved my life as I crawled into where there was a hen with a lot of chickens.   The hen went for me, Mum heard Syd crying and she ran around to find him fighting the hen but he wouldn't leave me. These things all happened on the trip over.