Blowering Dam - Grenfell

What stunning Countryside Victoria & NSW have! I grew up in Victoria but I haven’t visited many of the places we have recently seen and those that I have, well it’s been over 50 years ago … Corryong, Tumut, The Blowering Dam were all lovely recent places we have visited. We stayed at Blowering Dam for two nights the 2nd was our 49th Wedding Anniversary and we celebrated it with a camp oven roast which was superb. We even had a Kangaroo bound past us as we were watching the Sunset.

We stopped at Coonabarabran for morning tea next to a park that had the Captains Walk, im not a lover of Cricket but its a lovely park with all the bronze busts of the Australian Cricket Captains, Sir Don Bradman was born in Cootamundra and also lived at Bowral as a young boy.

We stayed a night at Stockinbingal at their local reserve, here they have power & water for a Donation. To say we were surprised is an understatement, camping was basically anywhere around the oval but if you wanted water and power it was mainly at one side. With no one else here we had the pick of choices, our Lithium batteries were getting down to around 45% in the mornings and with very little sun about they were only getting to around 70% late afternoon so it was great we could charge them up fully plus Vickie did a load of washing.

We are purposely finding the quieter back roads so we can visit the smaller older townsites along the way. We stopped at a parking bay at Milvale where there was some metal art statues plus a Koala up a tree, we are loving seeing the very old houses and buildings along the way.

Presently camped at Grenfell NSW thanks to the RV Friendly town .. they have some beautiful painted silos plus a very interesting town centre we will check out tomorrow.

Lighthouse Crossing - Tumut

We had an excellent 5 nights camped along the Murray at Towong Lighthouse Crossing though the weather could have been a lot better, very overcast and occasional showers.

The day drive up to Thredbo was an experience, a 6 hour trip to drive 220k and Thredbo was a huge disappointment with hundreds of cars and people everywhere ! Get me out of there !!! Stayed a night at Batlow Showgrounds, moving on to Tumut and the Blowering Dam today. 😁😁😁

Need some ☀️ Sun .. Batteries at 48% this morning, .. she’ll be right 😂😂

Lighthouse Crossing - Corryong

Another drive into Corryong to check out the shops and tourist info centre to ask about a drive up into the hills with some lookouts, we were given a map and will go for a drive tomorrow, we also went into Bacash Emporium, a mixed business that had just about everything plus an area upstairs full of older ‘stuff’ … very interesting.

Later that day a wind and sand storm swirled up around us and a shower of rain, At night we joined two other caravanning couples for a few drinks and chat 🫣🥳🥴 Today we awoke to overcast sky and threatening to rain, we planned on driving up to the lookouts high above Towong and Corryong. First stop was Farrons Lookout and then on to Ranch Road which took us approximately 15klms along a well formed dirt road. The further we drove the steeper it got and before we knew it we had arrived at Embery’s Lookout. This was my favourite out of the three. Southern Lookout and the Summit were both nice though and worth the drive and short walk.

We leave Towong & Corryong tomorrow, we won’t be travelling far as there are a few camp areas along the route.

Nariel Creek - Thredbo

We found a lovely camp before Corryong alongside Nariel creek for a night, it was beautiful with running water flowing by just metres beside us, we would have stayed longer but an image I saw of Lighthouse Crossing had me keen to visit it.

Only 13k on the Eastern Side of Corryong was Lighthouse Crossing, we have a prime spot on a bend in the river with green grass. The area is popular and most of the good places are taken, but we were lucky to slot in as another caravan left, apparently there is to be a Wedding here over the weekend.

Saturday we took a drive up the Alpine Way, initially we were only going to Khancoban but the road was so interesting with its twists and turns and steep up’s & downs we continued onto Thredbo … we’re glad we did but equally as disappointed in the amount of tourists around, the place was packed with people and cars and we couldn’t get out of the place quick enough.

So back down the mountain we drove, the number of cars we came across coming around tight bends in the middle of the road was a bit of a concern plus two motorcyclists cornering too wide had them change direction quickly. We stopped for a late lunch at Khancoban, called in at the Visitor Info Centre and then back to camp. Around 207k driven and 6 hours