FLASHBACK: April Trip Australia

The next group of "flashbacks" will feature our road trip from Sydney to Broken Hill to Adelaide and back to Sydney. We arrived to Australia back in April & drove to an ICOMOS conference (International Committee on Monuments and Sites). It was C & E and an open road...


This was the perfect way for us to get to know our new car (thanks Tony & MaryEd) and appreciate our new home. We ran into a bunch of bugs - I would call them grasshoppers, but here they swarm & are referred to as "locusts." We rigged up a screen to protect our car & were mighty thankful all these didn't get sucked in.

We stopped in the Blue Mountains, at a most breath-taking place. The lookout was known at Echo Point and there were a group of formations from stone nicknamed "The Three Sisters" although there really are 7 (4 are shy). I thought you could see for miles at this place, but I was in for a deep appreciation of just how huge this continent really is in comparison to what I pictured.


All these pictures were taken by Cam & it appears that he took control of the camera (and I got to be in a bunch). We snapped this one at a gold mining site near Orange with two new buddies.

And now the night sky falls on the open road...the scenes we saw & the amount of space visible gliding along at about 60 mph was more than I can describe in words. The curve of the earth was visible, exact outlines of individual branches against a fading sky, red dirt and white stones. The further into the outback we drove, the closer we got to Australia.