This morning we woke to a beautiful fine sunny day. This is the same view as yesterday afternoon but with better light.
We left a bit later this morning - was getting onto 10am before leaving Shell Harbour. As I said yesterday we decided to change our trip and head inland rather than down the east coast. I checked out the maps and off we headed to the Illawarra Highway. It soon became a bit of a country road, and without warning we were on a very narrow windy road through the Macquarie Pass National Park. We climbed to 700 meters and the road was a bit scary at times. I didn't want to look out my window as it was a long way to the bottom and no rails on the edge of the road. I am glad a big truck didn't come the opposite way. There were warning signs to watch for trucks on the sharp corners. The worst one was a sign saying " caution - trucks backing up". I was trying to work out what the sign really meant, and the truck that was just ahead of us was backing back. It was such a tight corner, the trucks can't get around in one turn. And this is a highway!!!!
I was pleased when we got to the top and back to "civilization".
This was our lunch stop.
And me serving up some lovely soup to warm us up - 8 degrees outside but 17 inside the van.
We finally reached the Hume Highway and had a great drive for the rest of the day. We went through Moss Vale, by passed Goulburn and Yass, and onto Gundagai which is of course famous for the Dog on the Tuckerbox.
From here we headed to Holbrook, a small town where we are staying the night.
Although it has been sunny all day, the temperature most of the day has varied between 8 and 12 degrees. Some of the areas have been very dry, and others appear to have had some rain more recently as there is some green grass appearing. Most of the property's have sheep with the occasional cows.
We saw some large wind turbines. Not sure if it was the turbines causing cloud, but the cloud was quite low right along where the turbines were. The first photo isn't very clear but you can see what I mean. These were taken as we were driving.
As we arrived at the caravan park at 4.45pm you could see the fog starting to roll in. I think it will be a cold night here.
That's all for today,
Love from Lesley and Peter.
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