Update

Still home waiting on friends from America to arrive.

We will be on the road again in November to see Portland, part of the Great Ocean Road and the Grampians

This is the back yard showing the family room overlooking the dogs play area, with the outside loo in the background

Home for a while

The dogs at the Sheltie National were great. Kathy did not stop drooling all day, and was listed as Number One Suspect if a dog went missing. We had a realy good evening at the presentation dinner talking with the conformation judge and her family, and with the Agility judge.

On Monday there was a white flash going across the Hay Plain, it was us. We left at 8:am and were home at 11 pm, very tired but relieved to be home. Tom Tom the Navigator got a bit upset when we went over the old wooden bridge crossing the Murray at Toolybuc as it was not in the map. Kept telling us to turn around even when we were across the other side. Ah well, it just shows artificial intelligence is not as good as the real thing!

Next trip will be in November to the Vic western coast. Bye for now.

Sydney again

We stopped at Denman, a little town in the northern Hunter Valley. A good park with all ensuite sites, just some strange people that could not sleep as they were wandering round all night.
What could be more "bush" than a stockman rounding up cows on horseback? (the stockman is on the horse, not the cows). This photo was near a town that should have had a Country and Western festival in progress, but nobody was there.
The Holiday is over as we are back at the Dog Grounds in Sydney, surrounded by Shelties. Kathy is in her element waiting to see the dogs tomorrow. I will have to take some dogs because of the large entry, not sure what classes yet. Sunday will be Agility day and Monday will see us start back for home.

Tamworth

We made it to Tamworth, that's us by the Big Golden Guitar.

We had 2 days with Susan and John, including a BBQ at Johns place with Kathy's uncle John and Aunty Anne invited, making it a bit teary when we left.

The next stop was with Rocky, Melinda, Razhel and Louise at Jimboomba. I had not seen Rocky for over 20 years and had never met his wife and family before, so we had a great time getting to know each other. Another sad goodbye when we left.

We had to start heading south to be in Sydney for the Shelties, so the next stop was Tenterfield. Went in the Saddlers there. I did not realise that Peter Allen was talking about his grandfather when he wrote Tenterfield Saddler.

The drive to Tamworth was exciting, driving through bushfires at first then thunderstorms with lightning hitting the paddocks either side of us, near Duck Creek. There is also an Upper Duck Creek and a Lower Duck Creek but as they are all within a hundred yards and are not marked on a map, none of that will be of much use in locating the position.

There is a definite water shortage in this area, we went to Chaffey Dam and the water did not reach the bottom of the dam wall. Cattle were grazing on the bed of the lake.

Kathy is planning the next stop before we hit Sydney, trying to avoid going near Bathurst towing the van.