Day 19 (113)

Overcast and raining most of the day 🌧️ (60mm predicted and 41 recorded), high 23

🚶🏼‍♀️4km hike

👍🏻 Found an old homestead on our hike 🚶🏼‍♀️
👎🏻 Rain, rain and more rain 🌧️

It’s rained all day but that didn’t stop us getting out to explore.

We headed to the Bethungra Rail Spiral to see the Melbourne to Sydney passenger trail pass through and over the tunnel.
Built in the 1940s it’s one of Australia's most significant rail engineering feats of its time and is the only 360-degree rail spiral in Australia.

Next we set off on a mystery hike 🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏼
A mystery because we knew where we wanted to end up but not how to get there 🤷🏼‍♀️
And it wasn’t via the Bethungra Dam, as that trail led to a dead end 😳
We eventually found a gate with a track leading into the Ulandra Nature Reserve, but there was no information about the reserve or trails. Still we followed the trail hoping we would find what we were looking for.
And we did 😊
The remnants of an old homestead- the shearing shed still standing but there wasn’t much left of the stone buildings 😔

Back home we hunkered down for the evening, all warm and cosy inside Hester, listening to the rain and hoping we get out easily tomorrow 🙏🏻Read more