Headed
down the Sydney Freeway from Gosford about 80km into the city.
Apparently about 80,000 commuters travel this road every day going
and coming from work. Its a four lane highway each way and its
chokka with cars and trucks. Stopped off the freeway just before
Sydney to get some breakfast and fuel before heading through the
centre. A group of motorcyclists were meeting there for a weekend of
camping and riding around Glouscestor. Were going to ride over the
Harbour bridge but just missed that lane instead went in the tunnel
that heads straight toward the airport and South. We have walked and
driven over the bridge when we were in Sydney last year so the tunnel
option was probably the easiest option of getting through. Some boy
racer dude had a problem with letting me into his lane when I
indicated, so he promptly changed into the left lane and roared through, echoing through the tunnel. Stopped at Rockdale foreshore and could
get a view of the city and also the airport with all the planes
landing and taking off.
Carried
on down the Pacific Highway to Wollongong and had a look around Port
Kembla. There were 10-12 ships waiting out at sea to come into port.
This port exports coal from the mines in the Illawarra region. Went
into Kiama and had lunch right beside the rail bridge where the coal
trains were going through Port Kembla. All these places have the most
amazing little beaches and bays. There are also inland lakes along
here too. Then it was down the Princess Highway which is a beautiful
road driving through dry stock farming, dairy farming, eucalyptus
trees and finally away from the huge metropolis of Sydney and
Brisbane. The only hiccup was congestion through Nowra. I was
thinking that we hadn't seen any dead kangaroos on the side of the
road, when I saw a wombat on the side,wouldn't want to hit one of
those either, they would be like hitting a furry brick. Got into Bateman Bay just on dark so decided to stop
the night. Tomorrow heading inland to Canberra to visit the National
War Memorial Museum.
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| Looking to Sydney from Rockdale |
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| Wollongong |
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| At Port Kembla |
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| Port Kembla |
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