Blogs from Orange, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Day 331 - Orange Today was the start of the normal working week for Jane and she headed off before even the dawn light had brought in the new day. We woke to the sounds of the front door shutting and the cruiser reversing down the drive, darn, now we needed to wee! Not usually a drama but camped on somebody’s driveway we felt it a little impolite to do much more than ‘water the lemon tree’ so imagine our horror when we find the front door well and truly locked. A quick run around the back proved we were definitely shut out with that locked aswell! Shivers! There was nothing else for it but to jump in the car and head for the nearest public conveniences …. but they too were locked. Argggghhhh! We finally ... read more

Day 329 - Orange During our time in the Cradle Mountain national park in Tasmania, two separate people recommended the Kanangra-Boyd national park here in New South Wales as an excellent days adventure walking. Today we’re going to check it out for ourselves and with the alarm set for 6am we’re making sure we allow the maximum amount of time possible to ensure success! We joked that any additional sleep could be caught up on the hour and three quarter journey getting there but out of respect for Tony we all just about managed to stay away while he was at the wheel of the cruiser. The final 27kms of the trip are via gravel road. There’s a smart looking national park campground here too and the road is in excellent condition, even good enough to ... read more

Day 327 - Orange I’m not sure what possessed me to set the alarm clock for 6am, especially when we knew we weren’t setting off on the walk until 8am. But anyway, at least it meant we were first in the queue for the shower block! Ha Ha! Oh and don’t act all surprised that we’ve got walks organised already, remember who we’re with! We didn’t want to disturb Tony & Jane too early so Darryl kept an eye out for any lights going on in the house. Turned out that Jane didn’t want to disturb us by putting the lights on so there was a bit of a stale mate for a while but eventually we were all enjoying breakfast in the dining room. We did a series of walks this morning, the first of ... read more

Day 1. We did not get away until today lunch time, arriving at Orange in the dark to find it cold and wet so we decided book a room in a motel. What a week until now, lots of late night trying to get the truck ready so a night in a good bed was welcomed. Tomorrow we are heading for Bourke.... read more

A lazy day pottering around after Paul had an early game of golf and then we had to go back to the computer shop as could not load the modem but is now working.... read more