Part 4..... Days 11 and 12 and 13...........

Tuesday it was pack up day and time to move to the next destination................We left Wodonga soon after 7am, which was an early start for us.

We were heading for the coast of NSW, and on the way were stopping for a catchup with a quilting friend that moved from South Australia a few years ago and now lives in Yass. On the way we passed this sign pointing to Cooma and Tumut, and the Snowy Mountain areas........

A stop over point before Yass was at Gundagai to check out the Dog on the Tuckerbox statue.

This sign gives a background to the Dog for those who may not know of it's fame....

                         

.........and a couple of the poems written about the dog. A part of Australian early history.

After checking in at the Yass caravan park for 2 nights,......

................... we enjoyed an evening meal with Gay and a good catchup. It was also a chance for Gay to meet Barry. It has been so special to meet up with old friends from years ago on this trip, and we have another quilting friend to meet up with in the next few days. 

Wednesday was a work day for Barry and he is set up in the van with his laptop, printer and scanner and the internet. I took the opportunity to get some washing done, and sit in the sunshine and make some phone calls to friends and family, and even had a snooze.

Later in the afternoon we went for a drive around town and 'caught up' with Banjo Patterson in the park named after him.......

The town of Yass has a lot of history and there are many 'old' buildings still in use in the main street...............

.............and I thought this building which is the Court House, was  very imposing looking for a country town.

This, the Yass River Railway Bridge is heritage listed and now disused bridge that carried the Yass Town Tramway across the Yass River and built in 1892.

We filled the car with fuel ready for the next part of our journey in the morning, and then drove around the town for awhile. I snapped the sunset on the way back to the van.

Thursday morning it was time to head further east, and after hooking up had left by 9am. The map below shows the first part of our trip, from Yass to Bungedore................

While in Bungedore we visited a store that sold beautiful wood items and here you can see Barry checking out a clock, and being impressed with the workings................ 

............and after looking at the price, decided that perhaps it could stay in the shop!!!

After our stopover in Bungedore, we were heading to our next stop of Moruya. You might see below the blue line that went out from Bungedore and then came back again.....perhaps the "navigation person" was not concentrating and directed the driver onto the wrong road. So after a U turn we managed to head the right way and onto Braidwood......

.....which was another historic town with lovely old buildings, and some autumn trees with their leaves changing colour..........Braidwood is also where they have a "hanging of the quilts" from these buildings each year. We were a tad early in the year for this as it is in November. 

After Braidwood we travelled through very hilly country and the road came through Clyde Mountain which was very steep and slow going...........

........and sorry for the blur, but you can see a landslide almost onto the road.

We travelled to Bateman's Bay and I snapped this of the Clyde river where it meets the sea. We were at the coast now, and only had a few kms to go where we are booked into a park at Moruya Heads beach.

Barry has more work to do here and we also plan to meet up with another quilting friend. After this we have no set plans about the way home, so stay tuned for more newsfromjude to come.

Blessings From Jude