Day 3

22/9/14

Coopernook State Forest to Lane Cove River Tourist Park

Today we packed up the caravan after an unsatisfying breakfast of nutria-grain and proceeded to drive for a bout 2 hours until we found this shop that had Subway on one end and another food place in the same building (I think the road house was better than Subway). After a huge lunch of chicken fillet burger and chips we left and drove down the Pacific Highway and trough some amassing cuttings in the hill for the road to go through (several hundred pounds of explosives later). At one really long cutting later we were going down a steep hill and across a bridge, the entire experience was amazing for me (Sarah had her head in a book all this time so she missed all this, her loss not mine). After flying down the hill and across the bridge a a million miles an hour we drove through some more cuttings which were not as amazing but still pretty good, we drove into the city and proceeded to try and find our way to the caravan park and thinking that we survived Melbourne we could survive Sidney, we were very wrong, no-one drove the someway as in Brisbane or Melbourne. Needless to say we were way out of our depth aside from being the only 4 wheel drive on the road. finally after almost missing our turnoff we found our caravan park and set up. When we had found our nearest toilets and BBQ set off to buy our making for dinner. when we had finished shopping I was all too happy to leave, go home and have dinner (crazy shoppers!!). For dinner we had chicken and veggies with rice.

Day 2 - Grafton to Coopernook State Forest

Day 2

21/9/14

Grafton to Coopernook State Forest

Today we left Grafton at about 8:00 and drove for about 1 hour until we almost flew past the Big Banana. we stopped at the Big Banana and bought some lollies that were being made at a candy shop near by and we also got a photo in front of the Banana and bought some souvenirs at the gift shop. when we left the Banana we drove for about 30 minutes until we came to a town and a shop to buy our lunch makings. after a big shop fest we finialy drove for about 2 hours until we reached a dirt road that mum said our campsite was down. when we got to th end we set up camp and had lunch at 3:00.

Day 23

26/4/14

Gulgong to Wallangarra  

Hi guys, my name is Tim

Today we had another driving day and not much of interest happened today but what was interesting really was interesting. So first we packed up the van and drove down the road for a bit until we got stopped by a herd of cattle ambling down the road. After the cattle had ambled away we continued on until we were met by a lumpy road that went for about 50km. After the road we went up a really steep hill, and then proceeded to go down the really steep hill (Mum telling Dad to slow down all the way down), getting down safely we looked around and saw mountains everywhere. We had lunch at Tamworth (not a RV friendly town) and proceeded on. After I missed several cool things because I had my head stuck in my Kindle but saw some balancing rocks! Not long after that we found a campsite just inside QLD borders.

Day 22

25/4/14

Canberra to Gulgong 

Hi guys, my name is Tim

Here is the fast track of our day: woke up at 5:00, packed up, drove, had lunch, drove, set up, had dinner, went to bed. That's how our day went. Nothing exciting (at least what I saw).    

Day 21

24/4/14

Canberra to Canberra 

Hi guys, my name is Tim

Today we got up and Into the car and headed to Mt Stromlo observatory which was destroyedin the 2003 fires. After we explored Mt Stromlo we went to the Royal Australian Mint were we had a tour. On the tour we were told about the history of coins and currency in Australia. After the tour we watched a short video on the workings of the Mint. When we had bought our souviners we drove to the War Memorial and had a look around, I joined a tour that was almost finished and got some useless (maybe) but interesting information. After the information boost we went had lunch, when Sarah had finished her pie we headed back inside and explored the main building and went through the wars that Australia had participated in. Wandering through the Memorial affected Dad more than he would care to admit. When the Memorial was explored we got into the car and went to a geysers that we saw at Parliment House yesterday. Turns out that the geyser thing was a memorial to Captian Cook. Here's the most exciting thing that happened all day: Mum doing a cartwheel!!  

Day 20

23/4/14

Jugiong to Canberra 

Today we packed up and left and headed to Canberra to look at parliament house and the war memorial because we couldn't remember anything from the A.C.T at all. When we got to Canberra we went to a caravan park and then went to parliament house and got in just in tine for a guided tour which we proceeded to go and join. On the tour we went through the House of Representatives and the tour guide gave a talk about it, our next room was the Senate and then we got a talk from our tour guide again about the room. When the tour was finished we headed to the roof to check out the view which was impressive. When we left Parliament House we went to the War Memoral but it was closed but we still got an impressive shot of the Parliment House. When we got back to the caravan we had dinner and went to bed. 

Day 19

21/4/14

Melbourne to Jugiong 

Hi guys, my name is Tim

Today was yet another driving day. Here's the fast track: woke up, packed caravan up, drove, had lunch, drove, stretched our legs, drove, found a free camp, unpacked caravan, had dinner, went to bed. As you can see we did a lot of driving today and not much else, we drove for a total of 8 hours luckily I got Dad to get Catching Fire on his iPad a couple of days ago so I had that to starve off boredom. That's all that happened today of interest. Fun day (not).