MUDGEE

Thursday, 30 May 2019

The temperature has nearing risen to 0 degrees

Power station not producing power

Rotunda  in Robertson Park

Joey Scouts' wreath

Lawson Park

Cudgegong River

Reflections

Whoever said caravanning was fun had obviously never travelled through New South Wales in late autumn!  Thank goodness winter hasn’t arrived yet!!!

Today we left a freezing, chilly, brisk and cold Bathurst behind as we headed towards Lithgow before turning north to Mudgee.  The road was very hilly and climbed to over 1200 metres; the temperature hovered around the two degrees.  Being a major truck route, we were very kind to a tanker and allowed him to overtake, only to realise the hills kept on coming and continued to climb.  It wasn’t long before we overtook him!  The turnoff to Mudgee was shortly before Lithgow and we drove past three well concealed power stations and as many coal mines within the first twenty kilometres (or thereabouts!).  The Castlereagh Highway was a beautiful drive, bit hilly along the foothills of the west side of the Blue Mountains, but through some beautiful grazing country until we came to the wine district of Mudgee.

By the time we arrived at the Riverside Caravan and Tourist Park, the sun was shining and the temperature was a very tropical ten degrees.  This is a lovely park on the banks of the Cudgegong River and only one block away from the CBD.  Mudgee is a very pretty town, with lots of well cared for parks and old buildings, which we enjoyed on an afternoon walk.  A lovely find was the wreath which the Mudgee Joey Scouts had made from egg cartons and laid on the Cenotaph, as well as the sculptures in one of the parks beside the river.