Now completely fed up with the rubbish weather we cut short our time on the coast and headed to the Blue Mountains. We drove through Stockton, Newcastle and Swansea, passing Cardiff, Dudley, Liverpool and Windsor, had a brief discussion regarding whether the Brett navigation system was working (it was) and eventually arrived in a very chilly campsite near Katoomba. We awoke surprised the next day to discover beautiful warm sunshine and clear blue skies (even more surprising given that the night before we could see our breath). We spent the day visiting the lookouts across the Blue Mountains and waving our arms around like lunatics in vain attempts tro get rid of the thousands of flies. We then left the mountains and, armed with booze, headed back north of Sydney to Kariong where we had been
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