Day 33 (127)

142Km Cowra to Bethungra NSW
Sun with clouds ⛅️ high 30

🏡Home for night
Bethungra ⭐️⭐️
Donation roadside stop- box at camp kitchen
Toilets, bins and camp kitchen with BBQ and some appliances (kettle, microwave, fridge)
Flat sites, some shade
Poor Optus reception

🚶‍♀️3km walk

👍🏻 Lunch at Hussy, Young
👎🏻 Need a good nights sleep

Strong coffee was needed this morning after a poor nights sleep due to the traffic noise 🫩

Once suitably refreshed we headed to the Cowra Prisoner of War Camp site.
There is a walk around the site and the ruins that remain providing information about the camp and the ‘Cowra breakout’ when over 1000 Japanese prisoners launched a mass escape at 1:50am on 5th August 1944. It was the largest prisoner of war breakout in modern military history and 231 Japanese prisoners and 5 Australian soldiers lost their lives.

We are now slowly meandering our way home and our journey today took us through the historic gold rush town of Young, also known as the Cherry Capital of Australia 🍒

We are not generally ones to photograph our food and drink but today we just could not resist (sorry, not sorry 😝) We popped into Hussy Speciality Coffee & Kitchen for lunch and WOW, everything was amazing including the coffee art, presentation and customer service 10/10 🏆

Our final destination for the day was another roadside stop- hopefully this one will be a little quieter 🙏🏻
Nothing fancy, but top marks to Bethungra for providing such a well equiped camp kitchen on the side of the road 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

We found ourselves on the edge of a belt of rain traveling across the state, thankfully we only got a few drops but the temp dipped enough for Johnny to reach for his hoody declaring it too cold- god help him when we reach Melbourne 😳Read more