Day 1 in Katoomba - 11th May The day started off well with the people next door giving us their "Hop on Hop off" bus pass. It still had 3 days to go on it. The bus goes pass all the major attractions every hour. It means we can park the bikes up for the week and walk and bus hop to get around. Our caravan park is right near the Katoomba Falls and very close to Scenic World. Time to get the Hiking Sticks out and venture out. Off to Scenic World first, t...

Kangaroo Valley to Katoomba NSW: Thursday 10 May 2012. We woke up to find Kangaroo Valley shrouded in mist and it did look beautiful. Got away at 9am and rode through Fairyland to leave the Valley….the twisty mountain roads were awesome to see, with lots of emerald green and big ferns to grace our views. First stop was at Fitzroy Falls just out of town, but they wanted money to stay so we hopped on our bikes and left. Then through lovely mountain roads all ...

Canberra to Kangaroo Valley; Wednesday 9 May 2012 After a foggy Canberra start in the morning, Dave and I rode out of Canberra in the cold, through Queanbeyan, to Bungendore and Braidwood, both cute little old villages, via the Kings Highway. We stopped for a Subway lunch at Batemans Bay and it had got quite hot by then, so we stripped off our winter motorcycle gear to cool down. Then up the busy Princess Highway for a while and through Ulladulla (love the nam...

Saturday 5 May 2012: Research in Canberra. Today Dave wanted to spend some time at the National War Museum checking up some research files for his dear old Dad, who served in the Navy in the New Guinea region in World War 2. There were people in the research section who were helpful to him, while I had a look through the Nurses display, finding out how incredibly brave and enduring the nurses who went to war were. They saw the poor wounded and dying soldiers a...

The Alpine Way . . . . . . After a great stay at Beechworth it was time to head for Canberra with an overnight cabin stay in Cooma. The route for the day was planned and in the GPS and everything looked straight forward and easy, should be there early and time to relax. All was going well, through some beautiful little towns to Corryong then to head up to the Snowy Mts Highway and over the Great Dividing Range to Cooma. Well that was until we did a left...