We left fairly early after a nice hot shower and grabbed a cache at Apollo eleven park. I was impressed that the plaque was dedicated to the orbit solo by Michael Collins around the moon. Oh and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon.
Whilst the kids and Kerrie were at the visitors centre collecting spoons and stickers I got some valve cores and tool from Super Cheap and swapped out the valve on the vans spare tyre. Taking out the old valve I found a small metal filing jamming it. I'm thinking the metal filing would have been created when the tyre was fitted. I'm just hoping that there are no more of them and all will be well. Anyway, I've now done a wheel change on the van and learned how to swap out a valve core.
We noticed a large number of "hot rod" vintage cars heading north, must have seen at least 30 during the day. Some towing some quite old caravans.
A lot of the trip was spent at 80 km/h. Work is being done on a new dual carriage way highway. Amazing how people behave when they are stuck on a single lane and have to slow down for trucks or slow cars. Seems that every overtaking lane ended with somebody trying to shove past us when we were trying to form one lane.
We dropped into the Big Banana, which is a lot smaller than I remember, so the kids could see the place. The kids (all four of them) purchased some "candy" front he manufactures there. Apparently it is quite nice. Pity they did not have a chocolate fudge factory as well.
at about 3pm we were starting to get a bit tired, so Kerrie pulled out the magic map and declared that our destination was Coopernook state forest. There is a free camp here, no cost, with a toilet.
After heading west down a fairly rocky forest road for about 3 km we found a large grassed area covered with vans, tents and campers of all descriptions. Mostly grey nomads the people are all friendly and commented positively on how much the kids helped us set up. The site is really nice. Quiet, grassed, reasonable drop toilet and 4 bars of phone coverage, what more could you want.
Tomorrow is into Sydney. This should be fun... We've about 350km to go, so hope to get in soon after the check in time of 2pm. Of course this will not happen as we will no doubt see something interesting on the way and have to sidetrack. Is no matter, that is the point of this trip. I've a feeling that we will get in and set up and have to go for a drive into the city. Will be nice to see the harbour by night.
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