Woke up to thick fog in the Hunter Valley. It was more like east coast Scotland than east coast Australia. We tackled our gourmet breakfast pack, rather nice bacon and eggs cooked in an electric frying pan. The fog started to break up and we set off on our travels. Today's destination was Lithgow in the Blue Mountains, twinned with Flagstaff, Arizona amongst other places. Our route took us through wooded mountains on steep and winding roads.
We broke our journey at the Mount Tomah Botanic Gardens where we took a stroll and a picnic lunch. One of the trees featured here is the Wollemi Pine, a tree known as a fossil but only discovered actually growing in 1994. The blue skies of the morning clouded over after lunch and for a short spell it actually rained quite heavily. By the time we got to our destination the sun was out again and normal service had been restored.
The tourist information office pointed us at a camp site that had self contained cabins available and advised us that the town library had internet access. We took the chance to get the blog up to date and got provisioned up. Back at the cabin we discovered that the location benefitted from hot and cold running trains - some of them about half a mile long. Dave was not popular tonight.
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