Gooloogong

Dear one and all





First let me catch up and tell you about the pics on the previous post. The five story ruins are from a five story building that once was the Lincolns Oakbank Brewery found at the free park spot we stopped at on the bank of a river at Narandera. We also have a picture of a tree which almost has the largest trunk that I have ever seen. The only other one I have ever seen is a tree over in WA where you can park a car in it. Obviously the trunk on that one is hollowed out, whereas this one isn't. If I spread my arms out as wide as possible I wouldn't even go close to spaning half of the tree.





One of the pics is of our new van that we bought when we were in Naracourt. We continue to look at vans just for interests sake and so far we have seen nothing that catches our eye. We drove to Cowra yesterday and had a walk around the caravan yard there and they have a huge range of vans but non were better than what we have so I left a happy chappy.





And the last two pics were taken at Victoria Lake Caravan Park at Shepp. That was our view from the spot where our van was stored while we went to Sale. Pretty nice, don't you think.


When we left the park to go to Sale we were told there was a large group booking for the long weekend and then when we came back there was a large group of vans and motor homes toward the back of the park. All during that week there were national BMX trials happening and after these, whoever won the trails would be off overseas for the world titles. Obviously, there were kids on bikes and kids on scooters everywhere It made the park much busier but it didn't spoil our time there at all





Where are we now? We are at Gooloogong a small country town near Cowra, Forbes and or Grenfell depending which way you come in to it. This free park, again is an old caravan park which has free power, limited to four vans only. So it is a bit of a pot luck if there's a vacant point. Also there are free showers, badly in need of a reno. Never the less a hot shower is a hot shower. They ask you to stay no longer than three nights but I'm sure there are those who stay longer (like the people who are parked near us)





Just on the edge of town their is a sign which says "home of the first Anglican Church" with an arrow poointing out the direction to follow So yesterday we went looking for it expecting to find ruins but there was nothing at all to suggest where it was other than a single old grave site with a fence around it. In town, though, their are ruins of an old church site but it doesn't say which religion so photoes are of the one in town.





Late yesterday, somewhere in town we could here a P.A. system. There were lots of yells and clapping so we thought it must have been locals returning from a big day out. Then a little later we could hear all the revelry over in the pub which is just on the diagonal corner where our vans are parked. So while all the adults were whooping it up in the pub all the kids were whooping it up in the park which happens to be about 20 metres away from our van. Sometimes, of an evening, we climb into bed to watch TV and read. I said to Ken "we're getting old if we are in bed and the kids are running around crazy outside." I went to sleep OK but Ken said the noise didn't stop till about midnight.








This morning we are off to Orange to stay with Mum and Dad, and then on to Sydney to see Ken's family there.





Love too all





Ken and Lyn