Day 3: Sat 19 Dec - Mudgee to Canberra

??-14-20 degC, a cloudy, and very windy day with variable temperatures

We hit the road at 8am heading to Bathurst.  A cool and cloudy day, 18deg, a very pleasant change from our hot and humid conditions back home. Like yesterday a lovely drive through an intense agricultural region, grapes, olives, stone fruit, cattle, sheep, horses, wheat, lucerne and small crops.  They’ve had some great rain recently as it’s all lush and green; a nice change from previous visits.   And the roads are so much better than the bush tracks we have in Qld!


Passed through some great little historical/quirky towns, like Safala, Wattle Flat and Peel, amongst the rolling hills around Bathurst, which was so busy that we were glad to be out of town once we’d had our caffeine hit.  We continued our backroads wanderings, via Trunkey Creek, Tuena and Crookwell on the longest, most winding section of road either of us have ever been on.  We were certainly pleased to be back on the straight and relatively wide roads after Goulburn, which was out lunch stop.


We arrived in Canberra just after 3pm.







Sofala

Sofala

Sofala

Sofala

Big Merino at Goulburn





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