The last lap

Bird of the Day;  Australlian Shelduck at Bungendore

Plant of the Day: Gymea Lily at Homebush

Scene of the Day: I'm tempted to say the turning off the Hume HWy to Goulburn

Art of the day; The ring over the Brickpit at Homebush.

Typically Australian thing of the day: The total zoo of a car park at Parramatta!

Maximum Temperature  25 on coast  Minimum temperature 15

Distance traveled  with camper  300  without camper 50

Having breakfasted we headed off to Bintel so that Frances could get her bins cleaned.  This was done with their customary excellent service and were repaid by her buying a few bits of this and that for cleaning them ourselves.

I then thought it might be interesting to go and look at the Olympic site (Sydney 2000) to fill in a few hours.  Perhaps we might see a hero (eg Richie McCaw) getting ready for the Super Rugby final two nights later.  No luck with that, and the primary schools Athletics Championships didn't make much weight as an alternative.

Here are a few images of the area.

I took this as a site guide - we couldn't find a visitor centre anywhere!

Gymea Lily.

The ring.

Then to buy some fuel and lunch.  The former was simple and the latter reduced Frances to abject terror as I wheeled around in a dark, poorly signed and crowded multi-story carpark in Parramata.  Eventually I got some panini; we ate and off to Cub to pick up the camper.

It was ready; we hooked up and we were homeward bound.  Apart from a foul sidewind blowing us around the drive back was easy.  We got home before dark and lit the fire.

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