Tuesday 30 July to Wednesday 14 August
We left Granville on Tuesday at 1030 hrs and arrived at Yass Showground at 1345 hrs and are staying for a week.
Places we visited & things we did or saw at Yass, NSW—
- Sunsets—so good to watch the sun go down and enjoy the colours
- Fogged in—woke to heavy fog 3 mornings
- Sheep—woke to the sound of sheep outside the van, Xena was very interested in them
- Yass Information Centre—collected brochures about the area
- Yass Town Railway Bridge—was used from1892 to 1958 for the tramline to connect the town railway
- Railway Museum, Yass Tramway—interesting and informative
- Victoria Park Triggs Memorial Gates—erected in 1938
- Yass Dam
- Oak Hill—a site of cultural significance for the (indigenous) community
- Rosebank Cottage—built in 1855 for travellers to the goldfields, it’s now a private residence
- Dean’s Birthday—Soldiers Club for lunch and Woolies sponge & cream cake
- Flat Rock Crossing—one of the original river crossings before the new bridge
- Weereewa Lookout on Lake George—90km return trip for a picnic lunch and great views
- Murrumbatemen Cemetery—photographed headstones of surnames of Reen’s Family Tree and a beautiful water tower mural
- Yass Cemetery—photographed headstones again
- Yass Community Baptist Church—Worship Service and the people were very friendly and chatty
- Murals—aboriginal wall mural on the back of the club, toilet block in Riverbank Park and also along the sides of the driveway under the road around the park
- Old Linton Manor-built 1857 by a Jewish innkeeper, Moses Moses. It has been an inn, a war veterans home and is now a private residence, accommodation and café and is quite enormous
- Campers—always interested to see the other campers staying overnight and their vans
We left Yass at 1020 hrs and arrived at Temora Showground at 1245 hrs and are staying for a week.
Places we visited & things we did or saw at Temora, NSW—
- Lake Centenary—picnic lunch by the lake, beautiful set up
- Reen’s Birthday—Shamrock Chinese Restaurant and Vienetta Ice Cream for my cake
- Temora Visitor Information Centre—well set up for a small town with lots of rural history to see
- Drone—Dean experimented with his drone and recording
- Historic buildings—Flour Mill, Shamrock Hotel, St Anne’s Catholic School and Church which we could see from the showground and some of the buildings date back to late 1800’s
- Aviation Museum—well set up, interesting, informative, staff were knowledgeable and friendly and the displays were fabulous. Temora was a training base for the RAAF in the 2nd World War and on
- Sunsets—enjoyed sunsets each night from our lounge
- Trotters—each day there were a few and on the weekend there were many horse/carts ride into the showground to practise on the track and leave again, there were some beautiful horses
- Campers—we were again interested to see the other campers staying overnight and their vans
- Fogged in—only once but still lovely
- Temora Baptist Church—a small country church, very friendly people
- Temora Railway Station—enjoyed walking around the yard, reading all the info
We left Temora at 1010 hrs and arrived at Jerilderie Motel/Caravan Park at 1350 hrs and are staying for 6 nights with our friends arriving on Day 3.
Places we visited & things we did or saw at Jerilderie, NSW—
- Cows—had some up close and personal with a cow on the highway
- Caravan Park—beautiful location on the banks of Billabong Creek
- Fogged In—woke the first morning to thick fog, very scenic