Saturday 27 October 2012

Road to Gundagai


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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