12: Gooloogong 2014

A rainy night, thunder claps and a bit of wind and summer has disappeared.  After hearing gun shots the previous morning, learning it was the beginning of Victoria's duck hunting season and this morning being overcast and cold I packed up and heading north. But for some reason the GPS took me back into Victoria and toward Wadonga instead of north to Culcairn.

 

Heading up the Hume then onto Olympic Way, I had decided to try for Wilks Park at Wagga Wagga, another free camp spot beside the Murrumbidgee River with a good walk into town from there.



Not quite a full moon but a beauty anyway.



I stayed one night and continued on after doing some business in town.  I am amazed at the variety of shops in Wagga Wagga.



Bypassed Junee to Temora then onto Bramedman to the camp by the mineral pools, camp by donation but states $10 per night.
I was impressed with the pool, green grass, large pool but a rough as anything camp area and no one was around, not a sole....so off I went.
 


Bypassing West Wyalong toward Marsden on Goldfields Way, another bum steer by GPS, taking me via Forbes, I back tracked a bit then turned onto the Great Western to Grenfell. 

Just me......the road.......and big sky's.

 

Found a lovely camp at Gooloogong with hot showers and power for a donation, not that I need power. There are 4 other campers here and a lovely pub is across the road.  I might spurge on dinner tomorrow night if I'm still here.  



There is a memorial of people passed in the park. I was struck by this one, of no relation of course, but very interesting. I'll stop in at Mount York to see Cox's road and possibly take a look at Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth's tree stump at Katoomba on the way down see the kids.