Australia Road Travel Adventure – Adelaide to Sydney Part 2
While adventuring ‘on the road’ one Aussie fall, we discover that as long as you have some time up your sleeve, Australia road travel is the very best way to see this country and a great way to meet the people who live there.
Day 3
This morning our Australia road travel adventure takes us into our third state, New South Wales. Pick ups in Australia are called ‘utes’ abbreviated (like much of the Australian language) from ‘utility truck’ and when we arrive at Denliquin we notice a ute atop a pole. We learn that Australia’s annual ‘ute muster’ is held here. Must get that next time! We move on to Junee where we are taken aback by the main street which looks like its come straight out of the late nineteenth century. Cootamundra is close by and the local pub there serves the biggest steaks we’ve eaten for years!
Day 4
Instead of heading up and over the Blue Mountains we travel a little north across rolling hills, past happier fatter sheep and paddocks of lush green wheat to the inland town of Orange in the New South Wales rural heartland. We spend a day in Orange (no orange groves in sight) and enjoy some wine tasting (yes another wine district) that afternoon.
Day 5
The Blue Mountains are spectacular and yes, very blue. The bluey haze from the mountain tops seems to go on forever. We spend the day winding through mountain villages lit up by the red, orange and yellow of fall leaves not seen in warmer parts of this country where native trees display none of this dramatic change.
We stop for afternoon coffee at Katoomba near some rock formations called 'The Three Sisters' and reflect on our 5 day Australia road travel. We decide that this was by far the best way to see the countryside and meet local Aussies between these cities. We will always remember the guys at Tailem Bend who offered advice about our newly cracked windscreen and made us laugh. If we’d taken a plane we would have missed them and the Aussie farmer we saw ploughing his paddock after sunset on a tractor with lights. We’d never have seen the kangaroos hop along side us at dusk or heard the locals regale their ‘yarns’ over a beer in every country pub we called in to.
We’re glad we decided on this Australia road travel adventure. We could have taken longer and should have but the lure of Bondi Beach and the Sydney Opera House had us heading to Sydney before the end of Day 5.
Warm regards
Rowena French
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Rowena French has traveled Australia extensively, exploring much of this vast and very diverse country. If you’d like to read about Part 1 of our Australia Road Travel Adventure – 5 Days from Adelaide to Sydney go to our website at www.AustraliaTravel4U
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