SaturdayCanberraanother beautiful day but it gets rather cold at night.We arrived yesterday afternoon after a bit of a mix up with the site we had booked.They finally decided to give us a site with an ensuite which means we park the van next to a rather dilapidated hut containing a shower and toilet.We have found that city sites are so much in demand they don't have to bother but we couldn't risk moving on as finding somewhere else would have been extremely diffi...

Cowra say Cora not Cow ra or the locals don't know what you are saying.W e are having some difficulty making ourselves understood in N.S.W.when Joe says his name they respond by calling him John and the other day someone couldn't understand us saying Canberra.I wasn't going to write anything about Cowra but in response to popular demand or was it the remark about us not being committed to this task? I decided to knuckle down to the task ( anyway the biggest loser...

Dubbo.The night visit to the observatory was a vast improvement although the meal was average.We spent an hour with the chap with a laser pointing out the night sky and then looking through the telescope.The highlight was seeing Saturn with it's rings very clear.Have spent 3 nights in Dubbo because there was so much to do here.The Western plains zoo is fantastic and the ticket covers you for two days so we didn't get zoo overload trying to do it in 1 day.The Dubb...

CoonabarabranThe astronomy capital of Australia.Our first big stop.I was going to say the journey down was uneventful but I think passing through torrential rain around Warwick and a flat car battery yesterday could be deemed events.We fell for the glossy advertising about this area and Australia's largest telescope 28k from here and did a stopover.The countryside is lovely but the Sidings Spring Observatory was a big disappointment and we wouldn't recommended a ...

weds. 10am and we should be setting off in a few minutes. Beautiful day when we got up so we got the van hitched up in the dry. It is now rather cloudy. so here we go, next stop?