Category: New South Wales

The dreadful fires on top of the continuing drought has led us to the conclusion we cannot continue with our plan of NSW Southern Coast, Canberra and the Victorian High Country .

So after a re-plan to keep us safe and not endanger others we are off to Tasmania on January 12th for 5 weeks returning on February 18th. We are both really happy with the decision and will plan to do the part we missed out on at a later date.

So see map for our plan up to June 2020 (subject to change at the drop of a hat 🙂 )

We are in Orange for 3 nights and then head off to Melbourne via Narrandera (1 night) and Echuca on the Murray river (3 nights).

The caravan is parked at Paul’s cousins farm near Orange, NSW, while we are in Sydney for Christmas.

Our adventure restarts on Friday January 3rd when we will head for Huskisson in Jervis Bay.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

My plan was only to post ‘destinations’, Merriwa was a ‘free camp’ on the way to Molong to break up the driving (we are aiming to keep to under 5 hours a day). However, Merriwa is such a lovely country town I decided it deserves its own post.

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Short drive for 3 nights (13/14/15) in Hawks Nest staying at a caravan park right on the beach.

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We arrived at Belmont on Lake Macquarie on December 10th trying to escape the smoke. Not totally successful although had a respite yesterday. The temperatures have dipped from 35c on Tuesday to a very pleasant 23c on Wednesday with a forecast of similar temperatures for a few more days.

We have really enjoyed our first days of downing tools and being a tourist.

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There are no fires near us but the smoke is very thick. We changed our route to the Warrumbungles National Park (the dark sky NP) due to fires and free camped at Curlewis.

However, this morning we called the NP who informed us that the smoke is bad and they are expecting high temperatures. So not only will the night sky be obscured but walking not recommended either. We are currently in Muswellbrook on our way to the coast (Lake Macquarie and then Hawks Nest) for some respite.

Who says we can’t be spontaneous.

Glen Innes is a town on the Northern Tablelands, in the New England region of NSW. As it is situated on top of the Great Dividing Range it has a lovely climate. It is green, cool and dry.

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