I'm baaaaack! Did ya miss me?
Well – what an Easter! The Boi, J and T and I went to Wombeyan Caves – about 2.5 hours away from Sydney. So picturesque!
We camped there for 3 days, and it managed to drizzle most of the time. And cold? You have no idea – i was doing dragon impersonations every morning hehe. Thankfully, I had a knitted scarf, beanie and my Sienna Cardigan (its first public outing) to keep warm. I was really greatful for the Sienna – it was soooo warm! Love it now! Except I have the smell of woodsmoke i need to wash out :).
Since i was the resident ‘pyro’, the fire was my responsibility – yay! Fire = pretty.
The Good: Hanging out with J and T, looking through the caves (i’ll get some pics soon) and spotto-ing the only other dikes there. Driving into Taralga and having a look at the Antiques shop. The funny dog that followed me around.
The Bad: The drizzle. The mud. The children (why do people insist on taking their children caving with them?)
The Ugly: Being woken up at 11pm by a drunken rendition of “Rhinestone Cowboy” echoing through the valley.
I wouldnt recommend going there during school holidays, but otherwise a nice place to visit. We had 3 tents between us, and a nice roaring fire most of the time (even managed to get one started in the rain – yay for me!).
There were waaaay too many people for my liking (and the Boi’s), which wouldnt have been a problem except people can be really disrespectful. I.e. The “Rhinestone Cowboy” people. There is a noise curfew at 10pm for a reason, and turning of your music off at 10, then cranking it back up half an hour later just isnt appropriate.
The caves were lovely – i recommend FigTree Cave, the others arent as impressive on scale :). Really really lovely stuff to see, and you can take your time as its self-guided. But again, people manage to ruin it for others. Why take a 3-year old hiking into a cave? Its not easy to get around. We spent a good deal of time trapped behind a family with 3 small children, and it didnt occur to them to please get out of the way and let us past (we tried, believe me). And their children were climbing all over 200,000 year old rock formations. Great.
When we were leaving, another family had let 3 of their boys climb under the hand rail and down into the bottom of the cave – WTF??? My mum would have kicked my behind if i did that.
So my verdict, nature rocks and people suck. (We tried to be respectful, we were quiet and took our rubbish with us when we left).
The drive back was great, we went via Mittagong. The road is sooo long and winding, and really beautiful. The Boi had fun cos you had to beep your horn at the sharp corners, to let people know you were there :D.
Unfortunately, i didnt get as much knitting done as i wanted. And no packing at all when i got home yesterday. Oh well….