We bid another reluctant farewell to our beautiful camping spot in Mildura and headed North East to Mungo National Park.Although this isn't the most scenic of Australia's National Parks, it is definitely one of the most important.It used to be an old pastoral station and was turned in to a world heritage site after the discovery of a 40,000 year old human skeleton, the oldest in the world, amongst other important finds.It is at least 600kms from the coast but several million years ago was an inland sea and today you can still see remnants of ancient sand dunes and sea shells - an amazing place to visit.

We then headed east towards Cowra and spent a night at the Mount Weddin National Park where we were greeted by a friendly group of wallabies.Ruby didn't know what to make of the wallabies, nor them of her and she managed to scare most of them off with her "toot toot's".The mountains have some old caves hidden up high and earlier in the century were a popular hideout for bushrangers running from the law.It is easy to imagine standing in that rugged landscape.

On to Cowra and finally a bit of relief from the drought stricken areas we have been visiting previously.Cowra is a beautiful spot with a unique history, being a POW camp for Japanese soldiers during the Second World War.It is famous for the prisoners breakout in 1945 when 1000 Japanese prisoners escaped, about 400 dying in the process.Since then Cowra has prided itself on its outstanding international relations with many other countries as well as its beautiful Japanese gardens which were just amazing, check out the photos.

Enough of the history lesson for now….. and on the festivities.The wedding which we had travelled so far for was finally upon us and it was fantastic to catch up with Brownie, his beautiful new wife Rebecca and 223 others of their nearest and dearest.The wedding was amazing and we definitely got the best table of the night - those there can be blamed for the drinking games during speeches.Yours truly caught the bouquet so be ready for an imminent announcement (as if).

After a week in Cowra we were very undecided about where to go and thankfully our neighbours at the caravan park made the decision for us.We got talking to them after Ruby wandered over uninvited for cheese and bickies once evening and they very kindly offered us their permanent caravan at Lake Conjolla, about 2 hours south of Sydney.We decided to head to the Blue Mountains on the way down there and this is where I write to you from.The Blue Mountains are just spectacular and have skyrocketed to the highlights list of our trip so far - especially coming from WA it is mind blowing to see such sheer mountains and spectacular waterfalls.Yesterday we took a cable car trip across the valley to get a birds eye view of Katoomba Falls, walked about 2 kms to Echo Point to, down 900 stairs to the valley floor, 5 kms across and back up the vertical railway…all with Ruby on Nathan's back, comfortable for her to have a half hour snooze in her back pack.The railway up was a thrilling highlight - 52 degrees up at high speed, we both loved it - Ruby not so much.

Today we drove down to Jenolan Caves and did an amazing walk through the Imperial Cave and down to an underground river.Ruby was the girl of the hour, holding hands with at least 3 complete strangers and laughing her head off to an old gentleman speaking to her in German.Our cave tour guide Ted turned out to be a local 4wd enthusiast and sat down with us to give us a mud map of some tracks to tackle.Nath was highly excited as you can imagine and delighted to get down and dirty in some muddy, boggy tracks.We got horrifically lost but still had a great time driving through the forest on old fire trails.We ducked in to the Megalong(toes) valley on the way back to camp to get some fantastic photos and finally home to relax with a beer and a wine.Hard work this travelling…..I don't know how we fit it all in!Till tomorrow. xxx