Wood Wood to (not as far as we had planned!)

12th August 2014

Woke up this morning to a rather bitey -3 degrees.... yes that is a minus sign before the numeral!

We had to be at the Tooleybuc bridge by 8:30 to avoid having to detour an extra hour via Nyah, so it was all systems go this morning. My hands were literally freezing onto anything metal which made packing up 3 times harder than it needed to be - even the tap wouldnt turn on ( see picture below!).

surprisingly enough, it still took just over an hour to pack up, including the kids having breakfast, but we did manage to get across the bridge which is one of only two surviving Murray River bridges with Allan truss spans, or Allan-designed lift spans (the other being the Swan Hill-Murray River Road Bridge).  The Tooleybuc bridge also provides the only gateway between the states of Victoria and NSW. - Add that to your Trivial Pursuit book of knowledge.!

This crossing was about 7 minutes away from where we set off, so it felt a bit stupid stopping the car to get out already (mirrors were still iced up) and have a closer look, but it was something important for the kids to see at least.

Got to Goolgowi a few hours later and pulled up close the local park where we set ourselves up for lunch. despite still being only 13 degrees, the sun was out and was a great stop where the kids exerted a small fraction of their built up energy on the playground with what appeared to be the most expensive and strongest roof I have ever seen

I was in the mood for driving afterwards and set off at full steam ahead...... which turns out to be about 85km/h to save chewing through too much petrol.

We decided that West Wyalong was going to be our destination for today. It seems it is either going to be a slower than expected trip, or a 330km per tank of fuel trip. I like the first option better.

After setting up, we went to the local shops and had a look through the town, then just came back and chillaxed for a while - with a beer of course.

Travel time today (incl lunch stop) - 7 hours. Distance travelled - 450 km

(ice - therefore tap NBG!)