Judy & Brian Tour Oz

 A new post in here is well overdue, so here goes! 30 October  - 3 November. Canberra - Cowra 190km Finally lockdown has eased and we can grab a few days away. We chose Cowra because its not the coast, which is heaving. The van park in Cowra is very nice and sits on the banks of the Lachlan river, right next to town. I even got a haircut in a real barber shop, must be one of the last cash only enterprises in Australia, just heaps of loose notes in a drawer, no register, no receipts, just a healthy cash economy. One reason I wanted to come here was to go to the Wyangala Dam, and see if I could see where some photos of mum and dad were taken back in the 1940’s. This plan was never going to work, for a start the original dam is buried under a massive rock-wall dam and new gates and spillways. Apparently the old dam wall can be partially seen when the water level drops below 30 percent or so. Looking at the old photos I can now see that those sites are almost certainly under the w...

Dubbo, NSW, 21 July 2017  Well, its been nearly a year since our last trip, and it’s a relief to be on the road again and heading toward somewhere warmer.  We drove through thick fog from Murrumbateman out past Yass and halfway to Boorowa. The temperature hovered between 1 and six and back again. Finally we broke into some clear sunny conditions and we had a pleasant run through to Cowra, where we stopped at the info place and Maccas for a break and a nice cup of coffee. After our rest stop, and ignoring the temptation to wander around the Japanese Gardens, we drove up to Wellington where we found a single cafe open, well almost, they were putting their signs away right on 2 o’clock, but were happy to feed us anyway. Wellington the town looks even deader than when we were there last a few years ago. From Wellington it’s a 100km or so run up to Dubbo where we found the Big 4, despite our GPS having not heard of it - and it’s being right next to the zoo. The most anxious par...