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Capitol Hill from City Hill in Canberra


Fitzroy falls taken on the 800m walk.

So sorry guys, could not get a signal last night..... so the blog was delayed.

After we left the Blue Mountains, we headed for the coast. We went via Kangaroo Valley as we were told that it was beautiful. It was fantastic not only for the scenery but also because of the steep gradients we had to go down. It had its scary moments especially when your part of the road was blocked by fallen trees, from the previous mentioned storms.

We stopped off at Fitzroy falls, to stretch our legs and to see what it was all about. We were pleasantly surprised to see a rather magnificant waterfall. A lot of times the "waterfall" is tiny. This was great.

From there we went through Kangaroo Valley Village, we passed over a bridge that had wood slats as the road. mmmmm would not like to go over in a truck.

We ended up in Sussex Inlet, not by accident but by design. It was a lovely spot right on the river which had black swans swimming on it. The idea was to go fishing and to relax on the beach. However we left early this morning and headed inland, you guessed it, it was still raining.

On the news last night we heard about a train derailment in the Blue Mountains because of a landslide. Luckily there were no injuries. The weather also closed the highway, so I think we made it out in time.

We drove along the coast to Batemans Bay and then on the Kings Highway to Canberra. We stopped at Nelligen because it had such a wonderful river "The Clyde" to do a spot of fishing. John caught a bream but as we had no were to cook it, he threw it back. We ended up by dismantling and packing all the gear in the pouring warm rain. It was great fun.

We stopped in Canberra for a look at Capitol Hill and City Hill. We took a walk on City Hill and looked across the lake to Capitol Hill. Unfortunately we could not spend too much time in Canberra, but those of you that know Crawley (in West Sussex), it is full of roundabouts that just leads to confusion.

We are spending the night in Gundagai. A day planned in the Alpine region of Victoria tomorrow.

We have so far left Queensland, gone through New South Wales, into Australia Capitol Territory and back into New South Wales.

Hope's Blog.........it was soooo cool today we went fishing. I even have my own fishing rod. We did go fishing but we where in the rain. I did'nt know how to cast, so I just bobbed my line in the water. I did'nt use my fishing rod the whole time I also used the hand line with prawn as bait, but the sad thing was that I did'nt catch any thing. My dad was casting and he caught a small fish! I did'nt want to hold it, it was ickie.