Today Brett and I drove to Mount Victoria where my mother lives. We first arranged to spend another night at the caravan park at Lithgow. On Saturday night is was below freezing. It was good to have power so we could run the heater. My Dad and one of my sisters also came up to visit and we all had lunch together at the pub at Mount Victoria. Big pub servings, and in an interesting venue, full of historic memorabilia. It was good to catch up with my family. It...

The rain continued all night in Hill End after the storm, and we awoke to winter. No surprise there, I think I wrote in my first blog entry that we were heading south back to winter. Hill End is an incredible place. If you ever get the chance to go there, go there. It is an old gold mining town. In fact gold mining continues there to this day, just without the population. A photographer visited the town in 1872 and took pictures of nearly everything. The photos ...