More Travelling New South Wales

After leaving Canberra I drove to Goulburn and took the back road heading for Lithgow, the road was good and I came upon the sign for the Wombeyean Caves, it was somewhere I had always wanted see so with no definite arrival times, I turned off the road and went kms++ along a gravel road to the caves. I could do a self directed walk and the people knew I was the only one in the cave, so off I went, it was great, not the most spectacular cave but worth the visit, until my camera battery went flat. I had to buy a postcard to make sure I had some memento of the cave. Luckily I could recharge my battery while I had a cup of tea and a bag of potato chips, a yucky sombination but when you are miles from anywhere and need a battery recharge there is not much choice.








Further along the road I had to go through some floodwater, but it wss only shallow and a truck had gone through first. Then I made the main road and travelled further on my way, who needs a map when they have a Tom Tom. I spotted a sign that said 'Cappertree Canyon' and a dirt track leading up a hill to the viewing site. Its supposed to be largest in the world, and with all the trees that is difficult to assess, but it was amazing. Look for it if you are travelling Lithgow way.










It was getting late and I wanted to make Rylstone before dark, it was also Melbourne Cup day, I did make Rylstone with time to visit the cemetery to see some Cooper relative graves, but it was too late for me to find what I was really looking for, and the only hotel had been having Melbourne Cup parties and didn't seem to be a place I wanted to stay that night, so I headed off to Mudgee and finally found a motel room and an Indian cafe a short walk away. The meal was good and I had a great sleep to be ready for the road. Everything was so green as I travelled along and there was water flowing across all the watercourse dips. I had meant to visit a friend in Gunnedah and had forgotten her phone details, The man at the motel looked up a number for me but when I got to Gunnedah and tried to phone it went to message bank. Its about 60 years since I was last in Gunnedah but will have to go back to see my friend. Lucky I went to the tourist information as I wanted to go to Sawn Rocks and thought they were near Bingarra, but no, they were closer to Narrabri, so I did a detour and was pleased I did as they were amazing and an easy walk from the road.





I continued on to Inverell with a stop at the Myall Creek aboriginal massacre memorial site. I wished I had time to see the whole walk but it was getting late and when I'm by myself I don't like to wander too far off the beaten track especially if there is no phone coverage. Stopped at a good motel in Inverell, had a nice Thai meal and enjoyed the sunset as I walked back to the motel. I left the next morning after a breakfast of fruit toast and coffee. Last time I was there I had ordered two slices of toast, but it was too much, so this time I knew I only needed one slice.
I drove to Tenterfield, went down the mountain road to Casino and on to Kyogle. I had lunch at Jennifer's Cafe and visited Daleys fruit nursery to get a load of fruit trees to plant in our garden at Moorooka. It was looking like a bad storm and coming over the Lion's road it poured down, lucky the road is now all sealed, but it was full of potholes and Running Creek as the photo shows was really running fast. Its good that they have put in new bridges on the Queensland side or I wouldn't have made it back to Brisbane that night.
Hardly had time to settle down before my next adventure