So after what has a been a fairly hectic 8 days in Sydney we’re now starting the journey back to WA.

On Saturday we picked up the caravan from Pitt Town, in the rain, (which seems to have been incessant since last Saturday afternoon) and headed south to Camden, an hour and a half from Pitt Town.   In the afternoon we caught up with some friends who we hadn’t seen since we left Sydney in 1996, so we had a great deal to catch up with and we enjoyed their company ’til quite late and had to drive back to Camden in the dark and, of course, the rain.

This morning the sun shone and we thought we were in for a change.   We went to Managle to ring for Sunday service, a new tower for us and a cup of tea before heading back to Camden to hook up the caravan.   At the back of Menangle church in the  in the 50s was Rotolactor, which apparently was a rotary milking platform (we would probably call it a carousel these days) but such was the novelty of this machine, that families would come from miles around and make a day out of it, bringing picnic lunches or buying teas, coffees, etc from the cafe that operated at the site!   Several of the ringers remember going there as children.

Back on the road we made for Goulburn our night stop, the rain started as we approached the town but had stopped by the time we got here.   With time to spare this afternoon, we’re catching with blogs, etc.

Tomorrow we head off in the general direction of griffith which is our target stop for the night. 

NB!    I have finally managed to get a new page on the blog, ‘Our Route This Trip’, which will give you better idea of where we are.