Blogs from Yass, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Well here we are in Yass a country town about 50ks from Canberra but to get here we had to travel through some beautiful grain growing country.We left Cobar and headed for Dubbo City famous for it's zoo and historic jail.We stayed at a C/P just out of town,having heard that the parks in town were the subject of thefts from caravans and cars.We found the town clean and well spaced out, saw a couple of the other C/P's one having a barbed wire perimeter(which we later stayed at).As usual we visited the tourist information and loaded up with local information and wandered around the main street and town. The famous Dubbo jail is on the high street being, built in 1847 as a court house lock up, later upgraded to a jail in 1859 it ... read more

Thursday 27th October – today, with the weather fairly pleasant, we decided to spend some more time in and around Yass. So after a fairly casual start we went to the Information Centre to gather some details on a place called Wee Jasper. It’s about 50 kilometers out of Yass through very rural, farming country and Caroline and Andy had recommended it last night. Armed with a picnic and a flask, we set off at about 11:00am and just meandered slowly through the beautiful, undulating countryside. We almost ran over a snake which seemed to be basking in the midday sun but we knew we had missed it as, when we reversed to take a photo, it slithered off into the long grass. Occasionally a view of a lake was visible which supported our mistaken view ... read more

Here we are in Fingal Bay! Fingal Bay is part of Port Stephens on the central coast of NSW & our Dad’s Uncle Ross lives here. We are staying at his house from Wednesday until Saturday. Today Uncle Ross showed us all around the place, including places like Nelson Bay, Shoal Bay & an old lighthouse. There is also a Coastal Rescue station at the lighthouse & Nathan got to go up & talk to the rescue crew & watch them work. There was also a museum there about Nelson Bay & all the things that happened here over the years. This included the ship ‘Lady Nelson’ which is now docked at Hobart! Yesterday, Uncle Ross took us to his work at Williamtown Airforce Base. He works on the F-18 Hornets & Hawk 127 Lead In ... read more