Mittagong NSW June 29 2026
Our first trip out for two years, we decided to only go as far as Mittagong on the first day, rather than driving all the way to Karuah.
Cold and raining on and off, we took ourselves out to the "big shops", and found ourselves some lunch in the mall. After we cruised down to Bowral for a bit of a poke around some "antique" shops, shoe shops, second-hand shops... Talking of second-hand shops, the prices in Vinneys are in line with everything else in Bowral - out of this world.
Found some lookouts that we just had to drive up to, but it's all so overgrown you can't see anything!
Mittagong Caravan Park brings back one very very old memory for me. Back when I was 13 -14, we camped there for a night or two. 'We' was mum, dad and at least my younger sister. Maybe my older sister and brother as well but can't be sure. 'Camping' was a funny little home-built trailer that looked like a small caravan. In the front was storage for the '3 x 3' tent and the stretchers, the back had a lift up section that revealed a kitchen. The tent went up around the 'kitchen' and that was the camp. What makes this memory so special to me is that I had a football with the Reg Gasnier logo on it. Reg Gasnier was a Rugby League player and the closest thing I ever had to having a sporting hero. I fancied myself as a goal kicker and spent a few hours on the football field next to the van pack trying to kick goals... One of my very few and very brief encounters with sport. We are basically incompatible!
Anyhow, took a snap of the goal posts some 64 years on, just for the fun of it.
