Gismo Queen and her King

Ewingar to Tambar Springs

I'm writing this in the the bathroom (of the van) because doesn't everyone write their blog in the bathroom?! The laptop was flat so I've had to fire up the inverter and there's only one power point for the inverter and you can work out where that is!


We are parked outside the Tambar Springs Hotel. The Wikicamps app says you can park out the back of the pub for the cost of a beer. We pulled up out the front quite late and when I went in to inquire about camping, I was told " to park anywhere, love - find a spot that's level". So we did and headed in to pay our camping fee. We ordered drinks and it's fair to say we made an impression on the locals in the Tambar Springs Hotel tonight. I suspect they don't see many outsiders. They were fascinated that we're from Tasmania, that Greg is blind and that I tow the caravan. Very friendly though, and we got the history of the pub from the owner (Tony - who's been there 14 years, 13 of those with his fat little fox terrier who sleeps in front of the fire in the bar), got some advice on tomorrow's route from the boys and I was advised to "look after Greg"......


A big day's driving today - my biggest day yet! 535 kilometres which included the narrow and winding road out of Ewingar and then the climb up the mountains to Tenterfield. We stopped for early elevenses in our favourite rest area in Tenterfield (this is the third trip to my brother's place since they moved here in October 2016 so we're getting to know some of the spots along the way), lunch in Guyra (where it was a mere 12C outside - we were not prepared for that in our shorts and T shirts! However, given the elevation is 1400m, it makes sense), fuel just out of Tamworth and then as far as we could get today, which happened to be Tambar Springs.


I think I'll get out of the bathroom now, and leave it to normal bathroom activities.

posted by Tracey @ 8:51 pm