Day 18 (112)

It’s Autumn🍁
102 Km Narrandera to Junee NSW

Overcast with drizzle for most of the day 🌧️ and a high of only 24 degrees (3.6mm rain recorded)

🏡Home for next few nights, to wait out the rain
Junee Ex-Services Memorial Club ⭐️
Free camp behind building for self contained vans
No facilities
Flat sites, some shade, can get muddy when wet
Dump point and water in town
Optus reception

🚶🏼‍♀️3km walk

👍🏻 Seagull loved exploring the trains🚂- he’s a bit of a nerd really 😜
👎🏻 Summers over and we’ve headed into autumn 🍂

Overcast all day with no sun so a great test for the vans new solar panels-batteries went from 87% 🪫 to 100% 🔋- got to be happy with that 😊

Today’s journey took us along the Canola Way, passing some interesting towns on our way to Junee, the historic railway town

First stop - the Roundhouse Railway Museum 🚂- $15 entry
It opened in 1947 as a state-of-the-art steam locomotive facility, and is now one of only a few working railway roundhouses in the southern hemisphere with half used for the museum and the rest for its original purpose of servicing and re-conditioning locomotives and rolling stock.
Thanks Derek for your informative guided tour, the Seagull loved it 🥰

Next stop - the Licorice & Chocolate Factory 🍫 where the Seagull put his chocolatier skills to the test 🧑🏻‍🍳
Dinner tonight - light salad followed by the Seagulls artisan freckle for desert 🤪

Final stop - the Ex-Services Memorial Club, as we were camping behind it would be rude not to pop in for drinks🍻.
And as an added bonus it was ‘Dancing with Jan’, an afternoon of boot-scooting fun
💃🏼 and the the NRL was being screened 🏉- so one drink became an afternoon ‘cause it was raining amd we had nowhere else to be 🤷🏼‍♀️

Whilst there was a short break in the rain we headed out for a walk around the town and to the (not very wet) Urban Wetlands. We also went to find the Monte Cristo Homestead, reported to be Australia's most haunted house 👻, but unfortunately we couldn’t get near as it’s closed off and up for sale
Haunted house anyone ????
We’d love it if anyone has $1.9m to give us 😜

What a change in the weather the 1st day of Autumn has brought for us, no sun to be seen and rain for most of the day
And there’s ALOT of rain forecast for the NSW Riverina over the next 48 hrs, with 60mm planned for us tomorrow and 44 the next day 🌧️☔️🌧️
Think we may be hunkering down for a couple of days 😳Read more