Today's travel photo is of the old general store in the small town of Wollombi in New South Wales, Australia. Wollombi is a historic town that was once situated on the old Great Northern Road. The town still has many of its old buildings which gives it a lot of character. We only stopped for [...]
Today's travel photo is a panorama of Lake Jindabyne in New South Wales, Australia. Jindabyne is a small town situated at the base of the Snowy Mountains right on this lovely lake. The lake is man made, formed by the damming of the Snowy River to produce hydro electricity. The town itself was actually originally located [...]
Today's travel photo is of the sun rising over Lake Liddell in New South Wales, Australia. During our campervan trip across Australia, we stayed in a lot of absolutely beautiful camping spots, and Lake Liddell was one of them. On this particular morning, Veronika had awoken very early and quickly woke me up to tell [...]
If you have been reading this blog for a while, you will know all about my love of hiking and bush walking. I was contacted recently by a publisher of a new bush walking book – Top Walks in New South Wales by Ken Eastwood, and was offered a copy to review. It sounded right [...]
We had only really gone through Canberra for one reason – To go to the Vietnamese Embassy to get our visas for our future trip. I was glad that we had made the choice to go here as the Australian War Memorial alone was a good enough reason to visit the city. From Canberra, we [...]
After a long drive from Canberra through the beautiful snowy mountains of New South Wales, we camped for the night right on the Murray River near Towong. In this photo, I am standing on the New South Wales side of the river, while Towong is in Victoria on the other side. The Murray River is [...]
Since we had unexpectedly headed north again to Glen Davis, we had to head south towards Bathurst instead of west like we had planned. To make the most of it, we decided to take the back road through Sofala, a historic town from the old gold rush days. Gold was aplenty around Bathurst during the [...]
There wasn't a lot happening around Wisemans Ferry, and all we really got from our camping spot was a whole lot of mosquito bites, so after a quick breakfast and a shower, we packed up and continued on our journey. Our path today wouldn't really take us very far south, but instead on more of a westward direction as [...]
The van rocked and strained as I edged it through a gutter that had been carved through the dirt road by the rain. Although it was dry now, at sometime in the recent past there must have been heavy rains that had washed away much of the top layer of the road, and all that [...]
The Hunter Valley is a beautiful area inland from Newcastle on the central coast of New South Wales. The area is one of Australia’s premier wine growing regions, and since we just happened to be travelling through the Hunter Valley on our Great Australian Road Trip, we kind of had to stop to do some [...]
