Skip to main content

New year, new trip


Happy New Year everyone, the perfect day to start a new trip. Thank you for following my adventures throughout the past year ... having people to show things to makes the travel all the more fun.

We are off to Mildura and Mungo National Park. Mildura is 1000 kms west from here and Mungo a further couple of hundred kilometres round trip. So I'm taking you on a 2500-3000km journey, an exciting drive. I hope you enjoy it too over the next month or so.

It's a hot day. The sun is shining brightly and the thermometer is rising quickly, making us a little worried that the people who warned us against going outback at this time of year might have been right.

Comments

  1. Outback? Not really do you thing? Maybe inner-out-back ...

    I have never been to Mungo National Park. I am looking forward (had to erase dying) to seeing it through your lens.

    Glad to see the chauffeur got his gorgeous mug into the blog!

    ReplyDelete
  2. I checked the descriptions that NSW Tourism gives these places and Mungo is in Outback NSW along with places like Broken Hill and Tibooburra, Mildura is not as it is closer to the coast (it's in Victoria anyway). You will see from the labels as we go along what the various regions are ... so at the start we are in Cabonne Country.

    Got permission from the chauffeur to include his pic ... he appears at the beginning of each new day in the journey ... more particularly to show the world outside his window

    ReplyDelete
  3. Temperatures falling, snow is expected. The longest trip I will do today is going from the living room to the kitchen to get me another cup of tea :-D.

    Have fun!

    ReplyDelete
  4. I'm so jealous.
    Mungo National Park is in my top 5 places to visit IN THE WORLD!!
    I don't think I would be as brave as you though and head there in the middle of summer - I'd end up as a little molten mess on the red dirt.

    I've so enjoyed your 'jaunts' over the past year.
    I hope you have many more wonderful adventures in 2010.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Yes, this blog is a bit like try-before-you-buy. Well it was until warned not to drive! But I have ways to overcome that.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Martina, you have my sympathy, I'm like that in the winter too.

    Letty, it turned out not to be too hot but a few days either way it could have been horrible. I loved it ... but there are a lot of miles to cover before we get there ... hang on in there it's worth the ride.

    ReplyDelete
  7. I love your jaunts. I'm looking forward to the day when we can do that. You're a great example of someone who enjoys themselves wherever they are.

    ReplyDelete
  8. And I love the map! That's a grand idea!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Coolibah?

Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.

The end

I retire from the workforce this week and to celebrate have decided to retire my current blogs and start afresh with a single consolidated blog -  My Bright Field  - to record the delights of my new life adventure. If you are interested follow me over there.  I will still be Sweet Wayfaring and collecting Royal Hotels.  The delights I discover along the way will appear together with my gardens and towns where I live.

Brown streams and soft dim skies

I gave my husband a thick book on the history of Australian Art for Christmas. It documents just how long it took the artists to paint what they actually saw -- at the hands of early artists our wild Australian landscapes looked like rolling green English countryside. Today's photo has "that look" so I have referenced words from the poem describing England. It was Christmas Eve. We were camped by the Tumut River in the Snowy Mountains of NSW. A shady spot planted with exotic trees from the "old world" and with the soft burble of a swiftly flowing stream. Bliss after a hot afternoon drive. But the old world dies slowly, a hot roast for Christmas dinner followed by plum pudding is one of those traditions that just won't die. Knowing we were going to be on the move on Christmas Day we settled for having our traditional hot meal on Christmas Eve this year.