4/5 Sep 2005

It rained and rained, so our bush ride was cancelled. Bundanoon has Sunday markets, bit touristy but I wandered round there before coffee across the road at the Bicycle Cafe. Not bad. Every one then left for home. Andrew had coffee with us as well, and then left to cycle of to Newcastle where he eventually arrived 7 Sep. What a ride.

I went back to the hostel and after checking the railway timetables too a trip to Picton.

There were a 100 odd people on the station platform waiting for a steam train. So I waited for them and got a number of shots.


3112 at Picton

Picton was pretty quiet, 20 odd years ago the main road to Sydney ran through it. You had to climb the razorback to get out of the place, a real bottleneck that the truckies used to advantage to blockade when they some grievance.

This was the first day of the "new railway timetables". Some of the locals weren't too happy as a number of train stops have now been replaced with bus services. I felt sorry for one poor bus driver as he copped a blast from a local. Shooting the messenger seems to be the only way out in an otherwise unresponsive government.

Do horses read?


The next day, the Monday, it was still raining and after a wet old ride to Moss Vale, dried out and waited for the weather to settle. At about 10am the sun sort of came out so rode on to Mittagong. On the way traveled partly along the Bong Bong trail which runs beside the Widgecarbee River. A very pleasant ride with no traffic to worry about.

The Bong Bong Track

At Mittagong, the weather closed in again, so I caught the train into Sydney and rode out to my daughters.