26 September – Friday
A cold night and morning, but clear and sunny. We departed Bathurst, heading for Wagga Wagga and the day very quickly warmed up to be very hot (28 degrees) by the time we arrived at Wagga Wagga.
Our itinerary took us back to Cowra and large banners in the main street advertised the Cherry Blossom Festival currently happening at the Japanese Gardens. We saw these at the beginning of July, so made the detour to check them out in full bloom. A bit of false advertising, as the cherry blossom was a few weeks away but other prunus was flowering. We had a look through the door and decided to save our money.
Continued through Young, the Cherry Capital of Australia – lots of stone fruit orchards in this region – and Cootamundra – the wattles had finished flowering. We had a stop at the chocolate and liquorice factory at Junee (recommended by a fellow traveller) and wont need to call there again. The countryside today was mainly canola, in full flower, and wheat, with lots of sheep about as well. The country looks just beautiful at the moment, so green and lush.
We witnessed an amazing sight just after lunch, an actual live snake crossing the road. What made it amazing was that a car was approaching us and in order to avoid being run over, the snake flung itself up into the air before deciding the side of the road was a much safer place to be.
The caravan park at Wagga Wagga has very large, gravelled sites – nice clean gravel – but the water and power are very awkwardly placed. We actually had to move the caravan to the middle of the site in order for our cord and hoses to reach. Bit of muttering was heard.
A cold night and morning, but clear and sunny. We departed Bathurst, heading for Wagga Wagga and the day very quickly warmed up to be very hot (28 degrees) by the time we arrived at Wagga Wagga.
Our itinerary took us back to Cowra and large banners in the main street advertised the Cherry Blossom Festival currently happening at the Japanese Gardens. We saw these at the beginning of July, so made the detour to check them out in full bloom. A bit of false advertising, as the cherry blossom was a few weeks away but other prunus was flowering. We had a look through the door and decided to save our money.
Continued through Young, the Cherry Capital of Australia – lots of stone fruit orchards in this region – and Cootamundra – the wattles had finished flowering. We had a stop at the chocolate and liquorice factory at Junee (recommended by a fellow traveller) and wont need to call there again. The countryside today was mainly canola, in full flower, and wheat, with lots of sheep about as well. The country looks just beautiful at the moment, so green and lush.
We witnessed an amazing sight just after lunch, an actual live snake crossing the road. What made it amazing was that a car was approaching us and in order to avoid being run over, the snake flung itself up into the air before deciding the side of the road was a much safer place to be.
The caravan park at Wagga Wagga has very large, gravelled sites – nice clean gravel – but the water and power are very awkwardly placed. We actually had to move the caravan to the middle of the site in order for our cord and hoses to reach. Bit of muttering was heard.
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