A Beautiful Day

Today we decided to go for a drive up the mountains, specifically Bellbrook. This is not far from Slim Dusty's childhood home. It was very hard to get going this am as the temp was about 4 degrees again. I (Michelle) was driving. The road was ok and it was only 45kms. Of course we had stop and do coffee at the pub. We then went for a walk as most of the buildings are heritage listed. It was funny as I was complaining they were all built at the turn of the century until ness pointed out that they were still over 100yrs old. It was interesting. The Slabhut Jail.

There was some strange warning signs.
We then decide to go to Collonbatti Lookout. We nearly went to Slim's house but decide that neither of us were real fans and it was along a dirt road. We also saw a curious sign, not sure why only the male gets a mention, and we didn't see any.

We turn off on to a dirt road- well that's how it start. Then there was cattle grids and of course cows-lots with very long horns. The road became a goat track after about an hour maybe a little longer travelling at 20kms an hour we

reached the lookout. On the map it showed the little icons of a BBQ and picnic table, we presumed that there would be an area; never presume, we park when the road ran out and amongst the long grass we found the picnic table and the BBQ. The views were extraordinary. We had our lunch listened to the birds and admired the views 360 degrees.

The ache in the arms tonight was worth the memories.

Ness was navigating so she decided that the quickest road out was the straights on the map. We went up and down around very narrow bends and on a very rocky dirt road wondering if we would ever reach civilisation again a station wagon over took us and we were on the road-2 and half hours later. One of the sights we saw was an old car with a tree growing thru the middle of it.

As we were travelling along the highway heading back to Kempsy we saw the signs to Scotts Head- so of course we turned off. We are still not tired of seeing the waves and swell and the deep blue ocean. Scotts Head was too bad but Grassy Head and Stuarts Point the areas closet to the beaches has been taken up by caravan/camping parks. You can only drive to the day parking area and get limited access. The best access areas of course is where the Caravan Parks are situated. We went for a walk along lovely beach at Scotts Head and of course took photos.

Back at the caravan Scarlia was waiting. The good thing about having a cat is we can leave her early in the day and get home very late in the evening. She doesn't care unless her meals are late.