-- From Sydney to  Brisbane

The road tracklog
from Sydney to Brisbane
from 2010/06/13 to 2010/06/20

On Sunday June 13 I left Sydney after two weeks. The Pacific Hwy towards Brisbane curves in rolling mountains cut in the rock. For this first day on the road the sun was always present and many motorists moved either towards the sea or towards the mountain. I wished a quiet bivouac in The Pines Forest, alas the inhabitants of Sydney had been given to go there.

I joined the coast to visit the second city in the NSW Newcastle admirably located at the mouth of South Ann River which cleared a mouth between the rock hills. It is worth the detour only by which some buildings of colonial architecture of very various style. The Cathedral of Victorian Gothic style, the Customs House of classic style and the Post Office a remake of Palladio's Basilica in Venice with, of course, some buildings of Art Deco. Modern architecture pride itself on a tower dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen. I returned in the interior of the land to run away from this coast dedicated to surfing, with hotels, resorts and others.

The day after was a small driving day in the Great Dividing Range. Shortly away from Singleton I crossed an area of coal mines at open sky supplying an enormous power station releasing a waterspout steam escaping from great chimneys. To inform drivers a signpost indicated Water Vapour, but the odour was characteristic of a coal power station. Moreover in the early morning I had been astonished by a black dust on my truck. The remainder of the day occurred in a landscape of stunning medium mountains in this season with a limpid sky. I stopped very early in Wallabadah to make my truck checked.

On June 16 I discovered The Big Golden Guitar in Tamworth which is the city of the festival of Country Music.  Australians adore huge structures, look at the Gallery-3 of pictures

Further on Armidale offers to see some buildings of the colonial era such the Court House and the St Peter's Cathedral. These cities are located on a plateau at average altitude of 1000 meters.

To bivouac I decided to go to see water Falls in parks. The first being one the highest, Wollomombi, missed water obviously. Second Ebor Falls where I bivouacked in spite of prohibition was well lit by the sunset at approximately 1300m high.

The following day was a driving day without outstanding sights. I stopped to lunch at Glen-Innes where I went shopping and where I consulted my mailbox. Always at approximately 1200 meters of altitude I bivouacked on a rest area in the clouds.

The day of 70th anniversary of the Call of June 18, 1940 I thought of doing a beautiful excursion after Tenterfield in Boonoo Boonoo NP then in Bald Rock NP. It was not the case in the first the Boonoo Boonoo waterfalls was almost invisible from the lookout and in the second it was necessary to walk three hours to reach Bald Rock considered as small Uluru. I carried on my road, in Stanthorpe I entered Queensland State up to the planned bivouac at Fassifern.

The purpose of this Saturday was to locate in the southern suburbs of Brisbane the localization of the MAN-Western Star workshop in Wacol and to bivouac in the vicinity in the event of need in particular before the forwarding of my truck towards the future destination from the Brisbane harbour. The camp-site nearest is in Durack. Close to my truck stationed one of the caravans longest in Australia called 5th Wheelers because it is a semi trailer whose fastener is the fifth wheel carried either by a pick-up called Ute or by a platform of a small truck of the Iveco Daily type. Brisbane is at the 27° of southern latitude that to say 10° in the north of Melbourne, the temperature in this winter season is more mild there.

On Sunday morning I crossed Brisbane without difficulty to reach Redcliffe where the importer of the generator Fisher Panda is of which I should have the service made, while heading to a Caravan Park I located the address of Power Protection Solutions. The day was exceptionally luminous.

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