Wallabadah – Penrith

Got a late start and drove of as soon as it got hot. We drove the back roads as much as we could and we pretty much for the most of the day were driving past coal mine after coal mine and when we couldn’t see a coal mine, we could see a coal fired power station. It was depressing and horrible to see. I was under the impression that the Hunter Valley was the wine growing district, but we didn’t see much wine at all. We certainly didn’t want to stop it was a horrid sight.

How can this ever be called green????

If you look very closely to the left hand bottom corner of the digger you'll see a little dot - that's a ute - puts the shear size of this into perspective. Each mine was at least 1km long and no idea how wide.

The earth is just totally destroyed once they've finished with it.

But so as not to end on a horrible way... we caught these cute cows huddling under the few trees that were on this property. Its really funny. If you look real close you can see a nose and 4 black legs under a bush in the front garden. Some how, one managed to get into their front garden and was eating their lawn!

We kept driving till we reached our destination for the day, but we couldn’t stop as it was still incredibly hot. The sky towards Sydney was black and we were hoping we’d get some rain. We kept on to Penrith and after a few splatters on the windscreen it dropped about 10 degrees – thankfully!

We went to the movies and saw Slumdog Millionaire. What a great movie. I really enjoyed it.

Finally cooler, we headed south.