19th September – Saturday
Departed Cobar by 8.15 am for the 365 km drive to Griffith – a nice, clear, sunny morning with an expected top temperature of about 25 degrees.
The road was very good for most of the way, with only a few bumpy spots. For the first time in many days, we actually encountered some small undulations. Until we reached Hillston, the countryside was mainly scrubby timber with lots of Patterson’s Curse and cape weed as we neared Griffith. The area from Hillston to Griffith was all farming – huge paddocks of wheat, with citrus groves and vineyards close to Griffith.
We stopped at a rest area in Merriwagga for lunch. Merriwagga is a very small town with about four houses, a pub, a post office and a very large grain storage facility. We discovered when we pulled up that the community was having a spring fair today, so decided to check out the stalls and activities. Unfortunately, we were a bit late arriving for Cat to take part in the cutest animal competition (he would have won, hands down!) but the Griffith City Band were keeping everyone entertained with some great music. One of the locals (from about 150 kms away) had even brought their motorhome for people to have a look at, which we did, of course. It was a very nice Wirraway and the internal panelling was all genuine Tasmanian myrtle timber – just gorgeous.
We had parked our caravan beside the heritage park (all towns have a heritage park!!!) and Cat discovered a memorial to pioneer women which he felt should have been to pioneer women and their cats.
We are staying at the Griffith Tourist Caravan Park, which is okay, so far. There are only a limited number of powered sites as the majority of sites have en-suites. Therefore, we have been put on an en-suite site, without use of the en-suite. (Lots of “en-suites” in the last couple of sentences!) The only downside is that we cannot extend our awning fully, but at least we have a grassy area under a tree for our chairs and don’t have to sit and look at a bathroom.
We may stay here for three nights, as we are a day ahead of our schedule to reach Canberra on Wednesday.
Departed Cobar by 8.15 am for the 365 km drive to Griffith – a nice, clear, sunny morning with an expected top temperature of about 25 degrees.
The road was very good for most of the way, with only a few bumpy spots. For the first time in many days, we actually encountered some small undulations. Until we reached Hillston, the countryside was mainly scrubby timber with lots of Patterson’s Curse and cape weed as we neared Griffith. The area from Hillston to Griffith was all farming – huge paddocks of wheat, with citrus groves and vineyards close to Griffith.
We stopped at a rest area in Merriwagga for lunch. Merriwagga is a very small town with about four houses, a pub, a post office and a very large grain storage facility. We discovered when we pulled up that the community was having a spring fair today, so decided to check out the stalls and activities. Unfortunately, we were a bit late arriving for Cat to take part in the cutest animal competition (he would have won, hands down!) but the Griffith City Band were keeping everyone entertained with some great music. One of the locals (from about 150 kms away) had even brought their motorhome for people to have a look at, which we did, of course. It was a very nice Wirraway and the internal panelling was all genuine Tasmanian myrtle timber – just gorgeous.
We had parked our caravan beside the heritage park (all towns have a heritage park!!!) and Cat discovered a memorial to pioneer women which he felt should have been to pioneer women and their cats.
We are staying at the Griffith Tourist Caravan Park, which is okay, so far. There are only a limited number of powered sites as the majority of sites have en-suites. Therefore, we have been put on an en-suite site, without use of the en-suite. (Lots of “en-suites” in the last couple of sentences!) The only downside is that we cannot extend our awning fully, but at least we have a grassy area under a tree for our chairs and don’t have to sit and look at a bathroom.
We may stay here for three nights, as we are a day ahead of our schedule to reach Canberra on Wednesday.
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