Day Eight

We said out farewells at Molong having met up with some people from WA and went on to Orange. What an impressive town with lovely streets lined with trees or all shapes and colours, beautiful parks and gardens and the sort of town you could spend a week in and not see everything. Parking for motorhomes was not plentiful as they all have this reverse in parking in NSW and Allan with his car behind(which can't be backed up) takes up a lot of space. We eventually found a car park a few blocks from the main street and squeezed in. After we got in I did wonder if we were going to get him out again but managed some how, now doubt he will claim it was his driving skills.

I went looking for a Telstra shop to get the change to the new increased data allowance on the data pack I am using for mobile internet and got an increase from 400MB per month to 1GB per month without increasing my cost. About time Telstra woke up to themselves and became competitive. So friends and family you can send through the jokes again LOL

From Orange we headed for Canowindra and the "windra" part of the name sure is true, we ran into some severe cross winds and had to fight the bus all the way with gusts seeming to come from all directions. When we stopped for lunch the wind was so hot, must have been 40+ degrees it dried out everything, including the sandwiches, with in minutes. We escaped back to the comfort of the closed up bus with the air running full blast where it was a "comfortable" only 33 degrees. The air-con and fridges were working hard this day.

We proceed on to Cowra, a nice town with lots of history. There was a Japanese POW camp here in WW2 where a mass escape was made and lot of prisoners were shot. The war cemetery attests to this event. Liked this town with its lovely parks and garden and a magnificent rose garden right on the highway.

We finished the day at Boorowa and once again decided to camp in a caravan park to have air-con but what extremes we have. First the day was HOT, then just on dark a howling wind blows up and we all batten down for the night then this morning (Sunday) as I write this there is a COOL breeze.

I wonder what today will bring. Only about 700 K to get to get to Melbourne so we will now slow down and smell the roses as we have 7 days to get there.