The Last Stop : Glenn Davis

This is the last part of the Easter holiday trip. Before we were heading home, we stayed a few nights at Glenn Davis. It's such a beautiful place, good facilities and best of all, it's FREE. Yes, it has got free campsite with a hot shower and the kiosk that open on the weekend.

On the way to Glenn Davis


The boys had so much fun even though the water was freezing cold


We went for a drive to the nearby place called Turon Gates and found really stunning view. To get there, the car has to cross the river through an old wooden bridge, but we (well...the boys) decided instead of drive over the bridge, we drove straight through the river. It was really fun. The boys enjoyed it so much.

Stunning view (Turon Gates)

Easter Holiday Trip (Part 2)

This is a long overdue post that I have been delaying for sometime. Bourke was the next destination after we left Ligthning Ridge. We camped at the really nice caravan park with very reasonable rate. It has two lovely swimming pools, clean bathroom and excellent barbeque and kitchen facility. If you ever visit Bourke, I recommend this place.

If tent is not your cup of tea, there is cabin you can hire


Nice tropical style swimming pool

The green frog, they were everywhere in the caravan park. Seriously, they were in the kitchen, toilet, bathroom, even in our camper trailer. The boys just loved them.

North Bourke Bridge


Jandra the paddleboat, I really enjoyed the one hour cruise along Darling River

Captain Ari and Jamie behind the wheel

The famous Fred Hollows monument.

The mysterious Mt Oxley


Next post, is Glenn Davis. I'll show you the pictures later on in the week.

Easter Holiday Trip (Part 1)

Just wanna share some pictures of our Easter holiday. These photos are the first six nights of our stay at Lightning Ridge.

The road to "Lorne Cattle Station" where we stayed was so muddy after the rain

Gorgeous sunset while dipping in the artesian bore bath

Wheelie bin race

Goats race at Easter Festival

Very interesting view...everyone fossicking tried their luck.

My boys were having fun look for opal

Having lunch at the local pub


To be continued....... next destination is Bourke

There Is Something About Lightning Ridge

OPAL, yes definitely opal. Lightning Ridge is one of the few places in the world where the precious and highly prized black opal is found. It is about 770 kilometres north-west of Sydney in the outback of NSW, has a populations about 1200. During summer time, the temperature can reach up to 40 degrees Celsius, and in winter, can go as low as 3 degrees.But for me and my boys, there is something very special about this place. Even though take so long to get there but that doesn't stop us to keep wanting to visit again.

We have been twice there, and would like to go there again next Easter holiday. The first time we went there, I didn't expect too much to see or do. I thought that the boys would be so bored after few moment fossicking. But, guess what....they sat and dig the big pile of leftover from the opal mine for hours, for nearly everyday during we stayed there. They really enjoyed it and had so much fun. We did the self guided tour as well in to the old opal mine. How interesting that in the old days, without the modern machinery, they still managed to get the opal.

Another place that we liked was a bore bath. It's a natural hot spring pool that very popular among the locals and the tourists. Its really soothing and relaxing to dip in the pool after a long day full of activities. Bottles house is another interesting place to visit. The boys were so fascinated with this very well looked after house.

The last but not the least, is having barbeque on top of the hill, while watching the gorgeous sunset. Its just magical.

Here are some pictures during our visit to Lightning Ridge
The magnificent sunset from the hill

Ari was trying his luck to find the black opal :)

The old cattle station where we stayed

The very common view in Lightning Ridge

During the self guided tour to the old opal mine

Having dinner on top of the hill

In front of the bottle house


The second visit there, we brought a friend of mine from overseas that happened to have holiday as the same time as we were going, and , I was so glad that she really enjoyed it.

Nundle - Tamworth Trip

Just want to share these pictures I took sometime ago. We had lovely time in this trip, apart that Jamie had a leech stuck on his thigh and we had flat tyre twice. Yes twice. We ended up buy four set of new tyres.
Ponderosa Park, Nundle

Our camper trailer

Boys in action

Relax in the hammock


Steven were fixing the tyre


On the way home, we camped four nights at Newnes and joined some friends. We had a blast.
NEWNES


Busy camping season.

Photos....Photos....and More Photos

I'd like to share some photos that I took in the last camping trip.
The view from our friend house's veranda in Tumut

Just out of Tumut

Sunset at Blowering Dam

Three Miles Dam

Three Miles Dam,

Family photo

The view from our campsite

The highest town in Australia : Cabramurra, elevation 1488 M

The housing complex in Cabramurra

The view from Cabramurra lookout

Some locals, not the best picture though.

Yarrangobilly

In our last camping trip, we stayed at Yarrangobilly Village camp ground. It was such a beautiful place and this is one of our favourite camp sites. The crystal clear running water of Yarrangobilly River becomes main attraction for us and it was a very important water resource during our stay there. The river has a perfect depth for Ari and Jamie to have a play. They went up and down the stream with their small rubber boats. When they got bored with it, they built a little dam made of the rocks they collected from the bottom of the river. The river is a good place for fishing too. Steven caught a few trout, but pity we couldn't have them on our dinner plates. They were under size so he let them back in the water.







Yarrangobilly Caves, which is about 20 minutes away from our camp site was a good place to visit too. There are several caves in the area, but we only did self guided tour in South Glory Cave. It has very spectacular stalactite and stalagmite formation. We all loved being inside the cave. At the beginning, Jamie was feeling a little scared, but we convinced him that there is no monster that would eat him.

On the way to the cave

When we walked toward the cave, we saw this snake.

In the cave

Having lunch

After we had our lunch, we walked down the fairly steep track toward the thermal pool. The water temperature is 27°C all year round. The boys had a great time swimming there, while I was worrying how to get Jamie get back up the hill to the car park. But I was wrong, because didn't even once he whined about the steep hill.
The superb thermal pool from high above

We enjoyed bushwalking too. Both Jamie and Ari were so strong and got a good stamina for their age.