Is supposedly at Guyra in NSW where we are spending tonight. We left Tweed Heads this morning and headed through Bangalo to Casino, Tenterfield Glen Innes towards Armidale. It rained a bit as we packed up but the sun came out right as we left and it looked like the day would be hot and fine.
The drive across the Great Dividing Range today was beautiful, but up and down and probably the slowest we've travelled on our whole trip. We stopped at a stone fruit orchard and bought ourselves some cherries, plums, peaches and cherry jam and cherry sauce. While we were there, the skies opened up, the thunder came and after that the hail. We had to stay in the shop until it passed over!
Around Tenterfild, we started to see paddocks and paddocks of wild flowers-mostly white daisies, but quite a lot of purple statice and other yellow daisies, so that was really pretty to see.
We had intended to get to Armidale tonight but decided to stop around 4.30 at a tiny town called Guyra where the caravan park claims to be the highest in Australia. It certainly is cool-I think this is the coldest I've felt since we left Walpole WA in May. Both of us had to go get a jumper on before we could set anything up around the van. Tonight we have an ensuite site for $20-quite a difference in price from Tweed Heads where our ensuite was $39 a night.
Last night we had our last dinner with Dave, Jules and girls. Jules cooked us delicious Asian style lamb shanks, wasabi mashed potat and braised bok choy-yum. It's sad to think we wond't see them again for quite a while but we'll get back there eventually.
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