Dropping on the western side of the Blue Mountains and traveling south, the country is
magnificent! Rolling green paddocks,
orchards, historic towns etc. certainly proved false the notion I had that once
you left the coastal strip the land was dry & barren. Of course it was spring, never-the-less I
heard complaints of it being too dry! The
pine plantations looked very healthy as well as extensive, with excellent
growth rates, judging from some stumps viewed.
Onward thru Lithgow, Bathurst and to a camp south of Blayney,
where I planned to sit out a few days of predicted showers at the picturesque
Carcoarn Dam campsite. Compulsory stop
in Bathurst at the well run Information Centre, laundromat and on to Mount
Panorama, where I think - if I were brave enough - I could have gone around the
entire racetrack! Also, if I were brave
enough I could have fished in Carcoarn Dam BUT warning signs of toxic algae
curtailed such actions. Word got out
that I understood electrics and soon had a few jobs lined up; this led to an
invite to the nightly fire and socialising it entails.
A check of the weather showed the initial forecast wrong and
a dirty great high was moving in, so I left for the Snowies via Gundagai, where
the famous Dog on the Tuckerbox statue stands - well, in accordance with the
song, "..five miles from Gundagai." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_on_the_Tuckerbox). It is quite a tourist attraction with
vehicles pulling in the whole time I was there, including tour buses. Lunch, some postcards and then on my way
again, making my goal of a campsite on the Blowering Reservoir, just out of
Tumut. I am in the Snowy Mountains! And the weather is great - so far; showers
predicted early in the week. Two and a
bit weeks until the ferry.
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