I’d been keeping an eye on caravan park accommodation at Lightning Ridge over the last couple of weeks. Early last week I noticed the park I wanted to stay at listed it’s powered caravan sites all booked out, crap!.
Continue reading “One Day to Go”NSW Outback Plan
I started planning this July school holiday trip earlier in the year. The initial plan was down to the Great Ocean Road and over to the Fleurieu Peninsula in SA then back home via the Grampians. Well as an understatement, that didn’t work out.
Continue reading “NSW Outback Plan”Day 12 – Murray River to Jugiong
Today we want to start heading in the vague direction of home, there is another good stop a few km up the road, but that seems a little pointless.
Continue reading “Day 12 – Murray River to Jugiong”Day 7 – Paddys River to Walwa
A beautiful morning and under normal circumstance we would have stayed another night. It’s not really the place you can run a gennie for hours, and quite frankly I’m not sure how long it would take to charge everything backup. Nothing for it, but to visit a Caravan park and recharge. It’s about halfway through the trip so a load or two of washing needs to be done anyway.
Continue reading “Day 7 – Paddys River to Walwa”Day 6 – Mt Selwyn to Paddys River
Another fresh, but beautiful morning. We slowly pack up and get ready to leave. It is a very tight U-Turn to get out of the spot we’re in, and given the trouble some of the guys had turning around a camper trailer, I’ve got visions of reversing the van several 100 mts back down the road.
Continue reading “Day 6 – Mt Selwyn to Paddys River”Day 5 – Cooma Loop
We will certainly stay here another night, it’s great spot. But thought now goes to where to go after here? The plan was loosely to go from here to Cooma then on through Jindabyne and to one of the camp sites past Thredbo.
Continue reading “Day 5 – Cooma Loop”Day 4 – Yarrangobilly Village to Mt Selwyn
While the mornings have been fresh in the van, in bed under the covers has been toasty. Once the sun has been up for an hour or two it’s lovely in the sun. We think about staying another night, but there seems to be a nice campground 35km up the road called Three Mile Dam, near Mt Selwyn, so we decide to move on.
Continue reading “Day 4 – Yarrangobilly Village to Mt Selwyn”Day 3 – Tumut to Yarrangobilly Village
Another beautiful morning, fresh, but great in the sun. Yesterday, I booked into to a guided tour of the Yarrangobilly Caves for 1:30pm this afternoon. They are only about 50km from us, and the closest campground is only 30km south. So not much driving today.
Continue reading “Day 3 – Tumut to Yarrangobilly Village”Day 2 – Blowering Dam Loop
We wake up to a still morning. It’s a bit chilly in the van, but it really nice out in the sun. As we breakfast, we can see at least two other groups are packing up. It’s such a nice spot we decide to stay for another night. After all we trying to slow down the pace a bit on this trip. I suggest we leave the van, and drive up to the dam wall. The wall is about 15-20km back towards Tumut.
Continue reading “Day 2 – Blowering Dam Loop”Day 1 – Home to Tumut
As this is meant to be a relaxed getaway with no real plan, we decide to pack up slowly on Saturday and get away on Sunday morning. So, Sunday we’re up at 7 and we hit the road south by about 9am. The traffic is light and we make pretty good time. A quick stop at the Yass service centre for fuel and we arrive in Tumut around 2.
We duck into the Tourist information centre. They don’t have loads of info, but to confirm a visit to the Yarrangobilly Caves would be in order. They also advise that one of the roads in the national park will be closed till the weekend. I had thought about taking it next week, but they suggested taking a van over it might not be a good idea. There are a few roads down here that seem to be limited like that.
Continue reading “Day 1 – Home to Tumut”