Linda & Pete's Travels August & September 2019 - Loop Via Blayney, Cowra, & Parkes

Wednesday morning, the 28 th , it was time to leave the dam. Headed south and arrived at the town of Mandurama. There were a couple of nice old buildings but not much else to hold our interest. It seems every single town has a ‘Royal Hotel’. The next town was Lyndhurst and that seemed to have less in the way of old buildings. If it did they were well hidden. So we kept on trucking to Cowra. We went straight to the Showground Campground where they did power and water for $20 a night. After set up and lunch we went to the Information Centre where there was a very good ‘hologram’ display of the Cowra breakout. From there we went to the Prisoner of War Camp. The camp was very widespread. There was not just the Japanese prisoners housed there. There were several nationalities including Italians who got on very well with the Aussie soldiers and farmers who they were farmed out to (pardon the pun). The Japanese, however, were not happy campers and were ashamed that they we...

Monday morning the 26 th August finally came around. We did not try for an early start as I needed a good night sleep from a lot of night shift that I had been doing. We got away at 10am and headed out to the M7 toward Bathurst. We made it to Bathurst for lunch in Berry Park. We remembered Berry Park as it was our first free camp on the first trip we ever did which was to Lake Eyre. As we have only got ten days we wanted to do a lot of kilometres to get to the point where we were on virgin territory and then slow down and check things out. So we moved on through Blayney to Carcoar Dam. The dam is 13 kilometres south of Blayney and is a great free camp with clean toilets. From there we could check out Balyney and Carcoar. The water level is down a lot but it is very pretty and we had phone and TV reception. I can’t understand why people would want to stay in a caravan park and pay, in this case, $32 at Blayney when we had this at the dam for free. This is our campsite at Carcoar...