2 Oct 2016

Off to Canberra by 0700 this morning to get the journey done, quite a nice morning so all good for the water levels to have dropped a bit and all the roads I needed to be clear. Bonus that there was not much traffic travelling early and it was a good easy run. Quite a few of the pot holes had already been filled, so there were not too many crashed or too much ducking and weaving to miss them, there were still some shockers though.
It was a non eventful trip, so was give time to ponder the fact it on this trip I have seen almost every farm dams and most small creeks and large rivers full, overflowing and running, some of them I have never, in all the years of driving through these areas, even seen with water in them! It really is an amazing country.
Random happening of the day would have to be being followed out of Boorawa and all the way to the Hume Highway by and MGTC, very cool, even though he did have the roof up. Managed to make it from Parkes to the center of Canberra on 1 tank of petrol, 295.6 kilometres on 20 litres according to how much it took to fill it from past the E point on the fuel guage, so that is something like 6.77 litres per 100 kilometres, not too shabby for a 1955 car.

Canberra was as it usually is, Canberra, though I was surprised by the bad state of some of the roads and how the city centre is mostly deserted, a lot of empty shops in there and not many people anywhere. A lot of other things to see though...