After a four day gastronomical visit to Alison & David on the Gold Coast, where we wined and dined either out and about or at their unit at Emerald Lakes, we are now on our quick trip down the New England and Newell Highways to Melbourne.
We left Southport bright and early Friday heading West through Beaudesert to Warwick, where we connected onto the New England Highway and travelled through Stanthorpe, Tenterfield and arriving at Glen Innes. When we left the Gold Coast the day was warm and overcast, but once we had travelled inland we had rain and wind so it was unnerving travelling in such inclement conditions as we negotiated the windy mountainous terrain before reaching the New England Highway. There were quiet heavy rain falls and when we arrived at Glen Innes we heard that they had 61mls before 9am, so all the rivers and creeks were swollen and overflowing.
After a very chilly night at Glen Innes we awoke to frost on our car ! The weather Saturday was totally different to the previous day, lovely sun shine and blue skies NO RAIN ! We travelled via Armidale, Tamworth, Gunnedah, Coonabarabran then onto the Newell Highway to Dubbo. The New England Highway was scenic travelling through countryside & farm lands not unlike Tasmania in places.
Our night at Dubbo was not as chilly, so it was back on the road today to get as many kilometers behind us as we could. During the journey today we travelled through thousands of acres of canola crops where you would see the occasional tree ankle deep. Today we had to pull over and clean the windscreen after hitting a swarm of bees at 100klm per hour, it was had to see through the windscreen and I was given good advise not to use the wipers as I would have a bigger problem. We stopped for lunch at West Wyalong after passing through Parkes, Forbes and finally stopping at Narrandera for the night.
We have heard that there has been flooding further south as the rivers peek, so we are hopeful we can get through to Echuca tomorrow.
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