Woke up this morning and it was damn cool, most likely the coldest we had been in the whole trip. Think it got down to about 5 or 6 degrees, which I think is cold as this is supposed to be summer. On speaking to the locals, while this is not normal for this time of year, it is not uncommon for cold pathes like this in summer. Guess I see why I live closer to the beach! Mind you it appears it is the height of these places that make them cold, rather than the distance inland, especially this time of the year.

Anyway, we pack up, around Josie having yet another teleconference, and move on up to Bathurst.

OK, now picture this, the Bathurst car racing track, and here comes ... the Gabites family doing the speed limit of 60km/h around the track, with their caravan on! Boy did we get some strange looks coming down Conrad straight!

We kept on driving through Bathurst (apart from the race track above), and headed for Milthorpe, which sounded like a lovely old town to visit. Well it was loverly, but mostly closed for Xmas holidays or as it only opened on the weekend. We did find it a bit strange that this time of year (still School holidays ) is obviously not a popular time as many businesses were just closed for 2-3 weeks.

From Milthorpe we drove through to Orange and managed to get the kids to the very cool adventure playground at the Botanic gardens. We did also though manage to grab the last site in the caravan park in Orange, there are only two parks and the other one is supposed to be full with permanent vans. Found this a bit contradicting where everything else seemed to be closed, and found it was due to the miners (there is gold in them hills), who take all the accomodation, especally during the week!