Oz Trip - Day 162

Day 162 – 10/10/2012 – Bathurst to Walcha

Well you can't go through Bathurst without doing a hot lap, well as hot a lap that you can do in a turbo diesel 4wd towing a camper with a 60kph speed limit! On the way out of town be did a detour to Mount Panorama for a quick spin around the race track.

Pole Position!

Hell Corner

Heading up Mountain Straight

Entering the Cutting

The cutting

Exiting the Cutting

Looking back out over Bathurst

Stopped on Skyline for a few pics

The view from the top of the mountain

Entering the Esses

The name says it all

Entering the Dipper

Entering Forest Elbow

Exiting Forest Elbow onto Conrod

Conrod Straight

Conrod Straight at not quite 300kph!

Coming into Caltax Chase

Looking back onto Mount Panorama

Armor All Bridge and Rydges Mount Panorama

Looking back down the starting straight and pits from Murray's Corner

From Bathurst we took some back roads to Ilford, Mudgee and Merriwa to end up in Scone and back on the New England Highway. It was a scenic drive but very hilly.

Mudgee main street

Scone main street

Because we were now back on to familiar roads, the feeling that the holiday was almost over was starting to set in.

We arrived in Walcha at about 5:30pm. It was a nice little van park just out of the centre of the town.

Van park at Walcha