Almost to Sydney and still pouring

It was still pouring when we woke up. We had decided not to go back through Canberra so headed up towards Nowra to check out the coast. We stopped at the lighthouse at Ulladulla, it was fine ---- when we started down the track ---- just as we were about to head back it bucketed down, we got saturated on the way back to the car, my wollen coat was so wet the water was running onto the floor of the car, my pants were wet to the waste. The weather was so appalling we decided we would just head over the pass and get going. The rain was so heavy it was really hard to see. The pass was quite lovely and had some surprises for us, Grandpas Shed at Fitzroy falls was a real find the public toilets at the falls where they wanted to charge us for parking the car --- WHAT THE? ----, I loved the Hampden Bridge, was amazed at the idiot in the black sports car that roared past us accelarating downhill, what scenery I could actually see through the rain storm was spectacular. We were 250 k's from Sydney which made us laugh - if someone had asked us to drive to Sydney we would have tole them they were mad. We arrived at Gundagai and rebooked into the Tuckerbox Motor Inn - this little motel is a real gem, the rooms are HUGE and it has the best shower on earth, we had stayed there night one and were going to head to Albury but the lure of the shower was too much, and the best of all it's only $80 a night. We had arrived on Sunset and I was madly clicking away while poor old dh unpacked the car.

Batemans Bay

We arrived late afternoon great room at the motel, large and spacious. We headed out for a look around and grabbed fish and chips. We awake to torrential rain. We spent the day exploring the coast from Batemans to Bermagui. I had wanted to see Mogo and we had a great lunch at Carettas Tea rooms. We both loved the carved witch at Mogo, the intricate details were just amazing. We collected sand for Ty's sand collection from Camel Rock. It was either pouring or not there was no in between. We managed to find a bit of "white water" but the lighting wasn't really great for beach shots.

Holiday Weather Blues

Canberra

Well we are home from our big Canberra to Batemans Bay Holiday - two days exploring Canberra - War Memorial, Museum, Parliament House - old and new - I even managed to scrape in a couple of scrap shops and gathered some loot. The War Memorial was awsome, we spent the whole day there wandering around the grounds and the displays. The weather was freezing, frost in the mornings but the days were quite nice. We stayed in Hall at the Last Stop which was an old converted train, it was fantastic, up in the Hills the view was awsome every morning.

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Hobbysew Echuca Scrapbook Retreat October 12 - 14th 2007

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Border Inn Moama

6pm Friday 12th - 4pm Sunday 14th

Scrap room open 8 am - 1130 pm

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Ty's progress

Well Ty is 15 months old already, wow doesn't time fly. He has loads of personality and just loves to pull faces. He thinks he is so clever because he can drink out of a straw now. We celebrated his 1st birthday with breakfast and a trip to funtastic which he just loved. His fave was the ball pit. We had a cake, poppers, party hats and lots of presents.

Like most one year olds he loved all the attention.

Broken Hill Vs Canberra

Well it's that time of year again our annual holiday - stress levels are rising - booking accomadation, packing, shopping, oraganising house sitting, getting ready at work so everything runs smoothly - only 3 days to go and boy am I more than ready.
How did we decide we were going to Canberra? - Well I told dh I wanted to go to Broken Hill, so we discussed it and are going to Canberra - but we are going to spend a couple of days at Batemans Bay. Next year I will tell him I want to go to Ballarat and I just might get to Broken Hill.