Scone To Coffs Harbour

From Scone we travelled to Gloucester, again via another scenic route through the Barrington Tops National Park ....

Beautiful rivers and creeks flow from high above in the cloud line...this river is at Moonan Flat.

Graceful Weeping Willows line the rivers and creeks...

Then its a steady and long climb upwards with Wild flowers lining the road...

The 'balls' on these leaves are wasp galls...

As we drove 'heavenward' ...the clouds came down to meet us!

You can camp at various campgrounds throughout the Park....but wouldn't recommend it this time of year....it was only 11 deg when we stopped and boiled the billy for some 2 minute noodles for lunch, which Hans was happy to share with the wildlife...but being vegetatian this little lady took one whiff and turned up her nose!!!

This route took us through to Wauchope for the night where it was raining...

From Wauchope we again went inland and took a 4wd track through the Werrikimbe National Park... I am certainly getting the hang of this 4w driving! and enjoying the remote places we can get into...Check out how dirty I can get Suzy!...I don't go round the puddles and mud, I go through them, but then most of it gets washed off again when you go through another river...

Came out of this track in Walcha with Tia falls along the way...

Took a secondary road through to Uralla and then Armidale.Woke up the next morning and it was 5degs! and fog all around...It lifted as the morning progressed and took a side road to see Baker Creek falls...

'Bouncing' in a paddock all on her own as we drove out from there, was a 'little lost lamb'...she followed the car along the fence line so it was a perfect photo opportunity....

Poor thing...but we guessed the mother or the farmer would find her eventually...

We visited many falls and Gorges that day....You could say the area is Gorgeous!

Here is another one....Ebor Falls

Won't put a photograph of each one on here ...but if you ever get the opportunity do travel the road called Waterfalls Way....the falls are worth seeing...cause here unlike Far North Queensland they have waterfalls that flow all year round...

Flowers of the day for the dash...Everlasting Daisies

Did yet another of road trip whilst on this leg through New England National Park and another chance to 4w drive... pit stop refuel from the spare tank above...

At the end of this track was a road to Point Lookout...Wow...it was back into the cloud line and a point that looks out eastwards to the multitude of coastal ranges as far as the eye can see...

The trees here are draped with mosses and lichens dripping with moisture...old mans beard, sphagnum, and the occasional rainforest orchid...

Its like another world....

Coming down out of the altitude and winding our way back to sea level we made our way through Dorrigo and Bellingen...was magic with the lush green grass,the huge oak, beech, maples, poplars, european and american conifers...Various stone fruit trees in full blossom like peaches, cherries, plums....

Spotted this vine hanging in a tree in Bellingen...its a Flame of the Forest Passionfruit...comes from New Guinea...

We are currently staying with Hans's brother Martin and wife Sandy and kids Joel and Kady...(Ry the eldest having just moved up to Brisbane to attend university) in Coffs Harbour....