Day 6 – Cowra

On our last night in Blackheath and with the 80s Trivia Challenge honours currently sitting with me, the others foolishly decided to give it another crack. Needless to say, after much hilarity I was able to advance my 2-0-0-0 score to 4-1-0-0 (me, Gaz, Maz, Kev). Thank you, Smurfs, Gary Coleman and John Lennon, – who knew the 80s would ever bring me so much joy? Lol. I won’t talk so much about the euchre where Gaz & Kev perhaps broke all records by beating us in the first game of the evening in only three hands! We did manage to win one game to get us off the board. Not sure of the count, but it’s lots to them and one to us.

We packed the car and headed off shortly after 9am today, arranging to rendezvous with Kev & Maz in Cowra. Besides a short stop for a leg stretch at Blayney where I left a few painted rocks in the Heritage Park, we had an uneventful trip and arrived about the same time as the Priests.

The Tourist Information Centre has a great 9-minute hologram presentation about the Cowra POW Breakout – it was quite fascinating, and we decided to visit the site of the camp. Gaz & I had stopped and grabbed some groceries to add to our picnic staples, and we shared a lovely picnic in the park with Kev & Maz before we set off in search of the POW Camp. It was quite an impressive display with an automatic narration that was also good.

Aware that the minutes were ticking away, we then headed off to the Japanese Gardens where we started with coffee and cake and then spent an hour or so wandering around the spectacular garden. Lots of photos later and a few more painted rocks dropped, and we were in the car by 3pm to head off for Wagga.

We enjoyed the trip from Cowra to Wagga and would have loved to have had more time to stop and explore. Travelling through Young, Cootamundra and Junee, we thought all looked interesting. Cootamundra in particular lured me with Bradman’s Birthplace Museum, and something called a Cricket Captain’s Walk, but alas, no time! We also saw a few cricket games being played on beautiful looking grounds – lots of white picket fences. It was Saturday afternoon.

Arriving in Wagga about 5:30pm we checked in to the caravan park, quickly unpacked, and then headed over to Wayne & Vicki’s place for dinner. Wayne and Vicki are Kev and Maz’s friends and have offered to show us around tomorrow. We had a lovely evening – fabulous roast dinner cooked by Vicki – and then it was back to settle in and get ready for tomorrow’s adventure.

Amazingly, I saw a post on Facebook tonight that a lady from the USA found the daisy rock I dropped at Katoomba yesterday and is taking it back to the US tomorrow to give to her grandchildren in Ohio to re-drop! Wow, a travelling rock lol.