Year off around Australia

This campground is just on the outskirts of Gundagai. Lovely spot beside Morleys Creek. We set up with awning and mat out - facing the creek.
Lunch time - we make up sandwiches and have some fruit.
I decide to relax at camp - catching up on bills (ATO), while Roger goes for a walk into Gundagai to look about and get some potatoes to have with tea.
When he's back at camp - we get chatting with neighbouring campers - nice friendly couple, Gary and Ann - they're taking 3 to 6mths off work and travelling - leaving their grown up children in charge of their business (electrical data). After this nice chat, we start preparing tea. Tea is panfried steak with boiled vegetables and baked spuds - all done on the campfire. My contribution, a date damper for dessert. We enjoy sitting around the campfire for a while - it's a perfect evening for it. Then time to go tidy up and do the dishes. Roger has his shower. Now relax until bedtime.
9/05/25 Friday. Roger is up before 7.30am, I lie in bed reading until 8am. Get up and have a leisurely breakfast, then get ready to go for a drive to do a walk to the Dog on the Tuckerbox. We leave just after 9am. Return to camp around 12.30pm to have some lunch. Roger has a meat and salad sandwich and I make up 2 open toasties - relish, avocado, tomato, Turkey roll, capsicum and cheese on toast. After a short spell, we go for another drive to look about Gundagai. Return around 4.30pm to light the campfire and relax, before getting tea sorted. Roger is making his sausage surprise casserole on the campfire. We ring Robert to see what's happening in his world - work and usual stuff. Tea is delicious, and we enjoy it with some mead wine that we warm up on the fire. While having our tea - Roger first to notice a cat meowing - sure enough there is a young ginger cat in our camp area - does not take long to realise it's not a feral cat, guessing it may be an abandoned cat - poor thing, scared but looking for some attention. I offer it my finished plate - with gravy scraps on it - which is enough to coax it to me for a pat. Oh I find this upsetting - such a scared but hopeful little being of affectionate fluff! Will try not to encourage it any more - wish I could work out what to do for it. We finish off the leftover date damper - by heating it on the campfire plate. I retreat (from sad cat) to the van to do the dishes. Roger comes in shortly after to have his shower. Now just our usual - relax before bedtime.
10/05/25 Saturday. I get up first to go for a run, I leave around 7.30am and return just after 8.30am. Roger has just started, after having his breakfast, to pack away ready for us to move on today. After a discussion, we decide to stay another night here. I have my breakfast, then a shower. We tidy up and head off on a day trip to Junee. We leave around 10am and return at 4.30pm. Roger is quick to get our campfire going, so we can relax beside it and enjoy our evening drinks. Tea tonight is reheated, on the camfire, sausage surprise. Dessert is Junee licorice and chocolates - from a bag of 'seconds', very nice. Roger has his shower and heads to bed. I'm leaving the dishes tonight - not many, so we'll do them with the breakfast dishes before we head off. I enjoy sitting up reading - I'm right into Dick Francis's 'To The Hilt'. I finish it and realise it's after midnight. Time for bed.
11/05/25 Sunday. Roger wishes me a Happy Mother's Day - good start to my day. I lie in bed reading until 8am. Get up and have leisurely breakfast before tidy up and get organised to be on the move. We leave around 9am. Head into Gundagai, Roger parks and goes and does a grocery shop in Woolworths - I'm happy to wait in the car and check my mobile. Have a lovely message from Robert wishing me a Happy Mother's Day and that he'll talk with me later once he's finished a job he's doing.
Roger returns, and off we go to find Sandy Beach campground.Läs mer