We left home yesterday morning and drove over the Blue Mountains. It was lovely up there, the air clear and crisp, the day sunny, the trees in their autumn colours of russet and golds. We drove around Cliff Drive where there were wonderful views over the 'spectacular blue-hazed beauty, dramatic cliffs and deep canyons' of the mountains. We drove on to Bathurst and then through lovely countryside to Orange. Thought it doesn't grow oranges, Orange does grow a lot of stone fruit as well as apples and pears. We spent the night at a park nr. the Showground. Bathurst has their agricultural show this weekend and Orange the weekend after, but, as is our way, we are missing them both! Today was another lovely sunny day driving through beautiful countryside, mostly large grey-green gums edging paddocks
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