My ‘Mini Adventure Series’ will be my weekends away from Wallendbeen with Casey, from Young. Generally exploring little bits of NSW, interspersing them with bits of working I guess.
So Bateman’s Bay, or as he tried to make me believe, just Canberra. In fairness we did start off on Friday by going to a house party in Canberra. However at about midnight we decided to set out for the coast, 2hours away at least. The original plan I think, had been to head straight for the coast and not stop at the house party but there’s nothing wrong with spontaneous changing of plans, except the original plan hadn’t involved sleeping in the car. Now I really don’t mind sleeping in cars, I’ve done it enough before and since, but in the middle of Autumn, in the Great Dividing Range, with nothing but one small, thin blanket is rather chilly and doesn’t make for a very good night’s sleep.
When Casey decided it would be a good idea to stop, he had a nice plan of a particular town about halfway along, with a nice view of the river when we woke up. After which we could tackle the windy mountain road by daylight. Unfortunately Casey’s memory wasn’t that great. Nelligen, the town he was thinking of was in fact on the other side of the mountains. Having worked this out we searched in vain for a rest area, instead having to pull into Buda Wang National Park. It was actually great waking up after the little sleep we had to a covering of green trees and even better as we pulled into the park we were greeted by two wombats shuffling across the road.
The drive down the mountains in the morning was brilliant. Roads as twisty as a rally stage, and we did finally stop in Nelligen for breakfast.
Our time in Bateman’s Bay consisted of beaches, lots of beaches. Yellow sand, clear blue water. Casey even decided to go fishing at one point, having brought a new fishing rod just for the occasion, not thinking to bring one with him. I gathered shells. His fishing amounted to no fish, I gathered many shells.
And after pizza and a lot of sleep in a proper bed, Sunday was yet more beaches, there seemed to be no end of them! But not before breakfast. I got to have pancakes for breakfast! (it doesn’t happen as often as it seems to from this journal).
The water was a gorgeous temperature. I’m not sure I’ve found any that perfect since.
And then back to Canberra, by way of Braidwood sweet shop and to sightseeing, more specifically the Telstra Tower, from which you can see all of Canberra, and then Sunday evening back to Wallendbeen.
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