The missed places - photos between Jan to April 2012

Just to add a few photos of places we went to between our two week stint at Patonga then to Easter weekend in April.

SOFALA

We orginally just needed to get OUT after all that rain - so the first inkling of a semi dry weekend we packed up and headed west.  First we headed to the south of Bathurst and looked at a camp spot on the Fish River - it just didn't feel like a place to wake up to in the morning - was more like a day trip picnic spot.  So we headed off  to the northern side of Bathurst and ended up at Sofala.  The river was still very swollen but we found a great spot past the main camping area but off track away from other campers - just the right spot to park the trailer and set up a campfire.  That night the stars were out was a beautiful night - great to just get away!!

 We headed out through the Turon National Park towards Capertee - first real 4wd trip with the trailer in tow - the rivercrossings were pretty good too considering the rivers were up and flowing.







LAKE ST CLAIR

 This was another trip to get away from the wet weather - we checked the weather and it was basically raining everywhere so we picked the least likely rainfilled area and headed in that direction.  We choose this from the book of 4WD tracks close to Sydney - I can not see how this is a 4WD track at all - it was bitument all the way to the camping area.  Also the camping area has a caretaker so you have to pay for camping - not too much really and it is a lovely area.  My only suggestion would be to have another bock of toilets closer to the entrance to the park - we set up camp with a number of other families in this area and had to go on a big walk to go to the toilet.  It appeared there are two toilet/shower blocks side by side near the boat ramp????

We set up our own shower tent and Gaz chucked up a tarped off area so you could step out of the shower tent and still have privacy.