We’ve not moved a lot this week, as we’ve only traveled from Canberra to Dubbo, but it’s been fun. The land is generally well-farmed, which we judge by the standard of the farm houses and machinery. Gently rolling, mostly sheep, with some cropping and some cattle. Little bit of grapes and others, too. The countryside is fairly hilly in the east, and flattens slowly the further west you go. Wagga Wagga, known to the locals as Wagga, has about 40,000 people and is the largest inland town in NSW. It is on the Murrumbidgee River and is almost exactly half way between Sydney and Melbourne. We took a drive out to Narrandera which is inside the fruit fly exclusion zone, so had to dump a few apples. There was no inspection, so don’t know how it
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