en route

Hi everyone,

I am spending my third night in a caravan park just out of Sydney.

We had our first stop in Canberra. I visited the Australian Parliament house, Telstra Tower, the war memorila and the botanical gardens.

 An old tank in front of the museum ... No fees for havig a look inside,too. Great audio and visual stuff inside. Worth a visit guys!

 On top tof the australian parliament house. They got a good lawn up there ... And the admission was free again!

We stood the night on a campground in Canberra. In the second night we camped up in the mountains, it was very cold and rainy. No other person was there, we had the whole rest area just off an highway for ourself.

We had a tough second night up in the Great dividing Range ... Wet, cold, and very windy ....  But Whiskey and a warm meal somehow let us survived the night ...

On the way to the next destination we came passed the "Abercrombie National Park" ... too bad the "& Fitch" was missing :-( But it was a nice ride thru the montains there, very steep and very lonly.... Just few cars coming the other direction for some time ...  Parick had some Problems with the steep grades after we reached the Abercrombie river in the valley. The breaks were nearly not resonding after we reached the bottom of the valley although I used a loe gear for the decend and after the ascend out of the valley, the clutch had a high temerature alert on m dashboard.... Those "incedents" forced us for some stops on this part of the trip!

That's the bridge over the Abercrombie river down in the valley. We had a break here to cool down the breaks and the transmission of my car as both were very hot after the 900m descend .... The road we drove down (and up on the other side) was the worst and steppest one I have ever travelled on with a car... And yes, MALTA wasn't that bad brothers!!!!

Too bad it wasn't "Abercrombie and Fitch" National Park ... And too bad I couldn t find my AF shirt for that picture :-)


On the next day we had a look at the Jeolan Caves and continued our journey into the Blue Mountains. We had a look at all the usual tourist stuff and decided to make an hiking trip down into the blue valley. It was definatley worth doing so, it was an astonishing landspace and we had some very nice views from the path winding down the cliffs into the valley.

That's me on top off the ridge and in the second photoI am all the way down into the valley. I can tell you .... That path we took was one of the hardest I have ever seen in my life ... Switzerland and Asutria ? Easy going ... those are a stroll in the park compared to the one I had there!

Today we arrived in Vineyard, a town near Windsor, west of Sydney. It is a very nice caravan park, we got a pool and even free internet. I hope you guys in Germany enjoy the cold weather. :-p

So long,

Wolfgang

ps:  I ll upload some pictures tomorrow morning, my camera battery is flat at the moment ^_^