Goulburn, New South Wales

February 14, 2009

Left the Blue Mountains as we found them – shrouded in fog and rain. Since we aren’t staying to walk there we are back to the endless driving. Today the objective is to cut around Sydney and pass through Wollongong to the South.

Drove through the rain around Sydney and stopped long enough on a Wollongong beach to watch some surfers looking for some big waves and a competition of lifeguards swimming into the surf. All in the rain and all knowing that there had been two shark attacks in two days in the area. Got to give them credit.

Decided to keep driving and made it to Australia’s first inland city – Goulburn. It has some amazingly large stone buildings from the 1800’s. Now the city seems to be facing some tougher times and the grand old facades are housing discount and fast food shops.

Still raining so we took another motel room instead of tenting it. As usual we took all the shampoo bottles and coffee packets with us. Got to save money somewhere.

Since it was Valentine’s Day we did eat out at the only Thai BYO in the city.