6 May 2022
According to the weather reports, (and my toes) today dawned clear and sunny with the first real icy touch of frost for this autumn. Time for us to amble back out onto the road NORTH to warmer parts asap. Talk about superb timing!
Just before 10 am this morning Linus slowly pulled away from Bong Bong Hill, proceeded through Moss Vale and somewhat counterintuitively turned south towards the Hume Highway and Goulburn. We paused at the wonderful Trapper’s bakery to buy a couple of their curry pies and yummy coffee, which we enjoyed further down the road at the pretty village of Gunning. The trees in the main street were glorious in their bright autumn colours of red, yellow and orange,
We left the Hume Highway soon after Yass and finally turned in a northerly direction toward Cowra. I still have vivid memories of a freezing camp at Cowra where we met up with Laurie and Kate Barber and Anne Marie and Hugh Finn on the first night of our Canning Stock Route adventure. It as so cold, that there was a chandelier of ice on the inside of the canvas roof of our camper trailer and the water bowl was frozen!. To be fair that was almost a month later in the year.
The last leg of today’s ambles was a short leg through beautiful scenic countryside to Canowindra.
And so we are spending our first night on the road north again, at the Canowindra Caravan Park, where we first met our dear friends the Wandering Wrighties on the first leg of their great northern adventure all those years ago,,
ON THE ROAD 