Rick and Rae's Travels: Tues, 29th and Wed, 30th Nov

We left our lovely free camp and headed into Scone past lots of coal mines. The country around this area is so beautiful, especially after so much rain. We were just heading out of Scone when the Navara decided to play up a bit. We had a similar problem on our last trip ... driving uphill on a hot day when suddenly we would lose all power. Rick had to turn the motor off and restart it on the move to clear the problem temporarily. We limped on up the hill and went into the Nissan dealership when we arrived in Mudgee. The service department there couldn't look at replacing the turbo water temperature sensor until the following week, but they were able to clear the computer error code enabling us to continue on our trip until we could have the repairs done. We checked into a nice, quiet caravan park in Mudgee and went for a cooling swim.

On the Wednesday, we woke to drizzly rain and a much cooler day. We decided to drive 30kms to the historic town of Gulgong. We went into a huge shop in an old building that was just like a rabbit warren. The ceilings were so low and with the addition of plumbing pipes you had to duck you head whenever you walked through a doorway into another area. The shop sold absolutely everything!!

We left Gulgong as the rain and wind started and headed back into Mudgee for lunch at a winery. After lunch we visited the Robert Oatley Winery. We came across Wild Oats wines in Broome and really enjoyed them so we had a look at where they are produced. Of course, we couldn't leave without making a few purchases. There were a lot of historic, interesting wine making displays so we spent quite a bit of time looking around. In the afternoon we caught up with some of Rick's family members at a cafe in town, before having a fairly ordinary Italian meal for dinner in the evening.