Tuesday 17th November - Canberra to Snowy Mountains Mal was reflecting on the Canberra town plan as we drove on a mass of four lane freeways that seem to connect these dormitory suburbs/satellite towns to Canberra. It was probably a great idea from Henry Ford's perspective. Everyone has a car and drives all the time. Now it seems out of date, we surely want cities where people don't need to own a car and the landscape needs less bitumen not more. If human...

Thursday 12th November Yes we are going to move today. We have come more than 200ks from Sydney, all be it in the wrong direction. As we leave we run into a couple who are leaving because 4 inches of rain is forecast. The sky, grey and cold kept it's own council on when to slap the landscape with it's watery glove. The road glided over the hills unfolding landscape after landscape of green rolling hills, decorated with sheep and creeks and shadowing gums....

Monday 9th November We make a plan one day and change it the next day. The schedule is loose and easy. So we ditch the plan to stay, pack up and head off on a day of glorious sunshine. We are off to Dunn Swamp further North in The National Park. We unfortunately see five dead wombats, killed on the road. They would be hard to see at night and coupled with the fact that people don't slow down at night the end result is inevitable. We have an early lunch at th...

We had a choice to stay but the scourge of the gypsy, the weekend was looming and we wanted to get into another campground before the rush. We refueled, re-watered and checked the tyre pressures in Lithgow and headed for Ryleston and the Dunn Swamp. Then we saw another little sign, pointing into Wollemi NP for a different campground, what the heck, a "screaming Uie" and we were gliding along a bitumen road. Tall spires of weathered sandstone taunt our imaginati...

Wednesday 4th November 2015 - Wollemi National Park Well maybe we are soft; yes we are soft, really soft. Why you ask? Well after a few hectic days in Sydney (laid back and boring to anyone under thirty who has never had kids) - then a couple of days drizzle, we are worn down and ready for some sunshine and peace. So this morning we gathered up the goods and chattels, dropped the lid and ventured out into the fog. We ground our way up the hill that towers...