One Small Lap
Not a bad night’s sleep, but I’m up just 6 after. The Murray certainly looks high and seems to be running at a bit of a clip. While I’m looking at the river a couple of fish jump out, I didn’t see them, but by the size of the splashes they must have been pretty big.
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A terrible night sleep, always seems to happen the night before a big trip. Alarm set for 6:30, but I’m up at 6:15.
I’ve arranged to meet up with George and Doug at 7am at the Clover coffee shop, apparently they open at 7. I arrive a few minutes after 7 but there is no sign of them, Mmmm. Then I get the message they gone to another shop as Clover is still closed (I hadn’t even noticed).
Continue reading “Day 1 – Home to Tocumwal-ish”
Another 4×4 trip with George. Maybe not quite up to standards of the epic Simpson trip, but I’m looking forward to a great two weeks away.
We were meant to do this trip in late August/early September like last time, but something came up and we needed to postpone, while I would have preferred the cooler months, we’ll just have to see what November brings.
George is traveling with he’s mate Doug, I’m going solo.
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Not a great night sleep, I think the guys in the truck were on my mind a bit, it just didn’t make any sense for them to be here.
I hear some guys taking not far from us, so I need to get up and investigate, they’re in the roped off section having a chat… even odder.
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A lot of rain overnight, it was pretty noisy with the rain hitting tarp, but we’re 100% dry under here.
Like a lot of campsites, a couple came in very late last night with a rooftop tent, but they are already packed up and leaving, I guess they didn’t bother booking.
Breaky and as the morning wears on we see patches of blue sky starting to appear.
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A few days camping with just Liam and myself.
I’ve booked into the same camping ground up the Watagans that I’d booked (but needed to cancel) in July. As it’s only a couple of hours up the road, we don’t need to get away to early.
It’s an easy drive up the freeway, and as I’m not towing, it’s no tollways today.
Continue reading “Watagans 2024 – Day 1”
A nice warm night. We wake and think there may be some snow around, but no. What little snow we had yesterday is pretty much gone now. So we realty got a bit lucky yesterday with the timing.
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Not nearly as much wind overnight as we feared, and the diesel heater did it’s thing all night so in the end not a bad night’s sleep.
We hear a lot of rain, it’s got to be too heavy for it to be snow, and it too comfortable in bed to get up and check.
Continue reading “Day 4 – Rest Day”
Another really cold night, and the heater turned off around 4ish, but that’s fine, we’ve got the remote beside us, so I turn it on again around 6ish.
It’s really windy this morning with the odd gust really buffeting the van around. I wouldn’t like to be in a tent.
Continue reading “Day 3 – Selwyn Day 2”
Overnight, sometime just after midnight I wake and the heater is off again, Bugger. The van is still warm, so not the end of the world. The kids are in then new sleeping bags, so I know they’ll be warm and I pull up an extra blanket on us. I would restart the heater, but on this damn Thermostat mode, it runs like a jet for 10-15+ mins, and in this quiet valley you’d be able to hear it back in Cooma!
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