Yestee we went from Grafton up to Glen Innes for their Minerama .
I bought one Clear Crystal . Herself , being 'th rockhound' in th family
bought up pretty well .
So then .
We went up to Glen via Gwyder . Came home via Old Glen Innes Road ,
mostly all dirt pretty narrow in places very hilly . Fantastic scenery . You
get th drift . Heaps of campers along th rivers . Me thinks , I could take a
drive like this Every w/end .
DellieMay said
08:13 PM Mar 11, 2012
I'm jealous
Gerty Dancer said
09:15 PM Mar 11, 2012
When we are away, theres nothing we enjoy more than going off the main drag, my partner loves to put the 4WD to use and we always have a picnic lunch ready. .... Hardly ever do it when at home though. You are right, Zoomtopz, the scenery and the general peace is sooo worth it.
justcruisin01 said
09:24 PM Mar 11, 2012
Your right , that is a very good drive , & a great little camp site just when you drop off the Grafton/ Glenn road onto the river. Also some good camps ontop of the range area.
Happy camping,
JC.
Geoff n Jen said
11:05 PM Mar 11, 2012
Zoomtopz wrote:
Do You walk on th Wild side?
Yestee we went from Grafton up to Glen Innes for their Minerama .
I bought one Clear Crystal . Herself , being 'th rockhound' in th family
bought up pretty well .
So then .
We went up to Glen via Gwyder . Came home via Old Glen Innes Road ,
mostly all dirt pretty narrow in places very hilly . Fantastic scenery . You
get th drift . Heaps of campers along th rivers . Me thinks , I could take a
drive like this Every w/end .
Have to chuckle I sent my daughter and son inlaw that way - mapped them home via places they could stay over with a trailer full of sheep all they could say is that the GPS kept telling them to turn around for K's and they felt sorry for the sheep I wasn't popular for directions after that - the road looks fairly straight on the map
the rocket said
11:23 PM Mar 11, 2012
Geoff n Jen wrote:
Zoomtopz wrote:
Do You walk on th Wild side?
Yestee we went from Grafton up to Glen Innes for their Minerama .
I bought one Clear Crystal . Herself , being 'th rockhound' in th family
bought up pretty well .
So then .
We went up to Glen via Gwyder . Came home via Old Glen Innes Road ,
mostly all dirt pretty narrow in places very hilly . Fantastic scenery . You
get th drift . Heaps of campers along th rivers . Me thinks , I could take a
drive like this Every w/end .
Have to chuckle I sent my daughter and son inlaw that way - mapped them home via places they could stay over with a trailer full of sheep all they could say is that the GPS kept telling them to turn around for K's and they felt sorry for the sheep I wasn't popular for directions after that - the road looks fairly straight on the map
our next trip away is there. could you tell me are any of the camping spots near the river in camps 6? thanks. rocket n strop
Pam said
11:50 PM Mar 11, 2012
Sometimes adventures works , sometimes not.
Years ago we took a back track up near Bellingen somewhere and would never take it again. It was very pretty, very windy and single track in some places. 2 of my brothers at the time told me that they had been on the same road ONCE!
In Tassie we took an inland route somewhere in the Northern side instead of a 20 k trip it was much longer but well worth the drive. We went past some young blue gum plantations that we would not have seen if we had stuck to the main drag.
Geoff n Jen said
05:30 AM Mar 12, 2012
Pam wrote:
Sometimes adventures works , sometimes not.
Years ago we took a back track up near Bellingen somewhere and would never take it again. It was very pretty, very windy and single track in some places. 2 of my brothers at the time told me that they had been on the same road ONCE!
In Tassie we took an inland route somewhere in the Northern side instead of a 20 k trip it was much longer but well worth the drive. We went past some young blue gum plantations that we would not have seen if we had stuck to the main drag.
Have to chuckle again we took an inland track somewhere in the eastern side. the maps said it went through to Mytle bank from the Lilydale side - we saw forest lots of it!! an hour or so later it spat us gratefully back out where we went in!! I knew something was wrong when the cows we passed early in the piece looked at us with that what tha look on their faces
Cruising Granny said
05:51 AM Mar 12, 2012
I towed the van from Goulburn to Bathurst through some back track which goes down and up the Abercrombie Ravine. I'll never forget it. Fortunately I know how to drive my truck to get the best out of her. There's a sign at the top advising it wasn't suitable for caravans, BUT no where to turn around, so I pressed on. By the time I arrived at Orbost I think, I was ready for a pint of wine on the rocks with a straw, and no ice. When I parked up at Bathurst I was a wreck. Blow the wine! Pass the Bundy.
Geoff n Jen said
05:57 AM Mar 12, 2012
Thankfully we did not have the van on and had a full tank of fuel and yep out came the red as soon as we got home
Hylda&Jon said
06:03 AM Mar 12, 2012
We have been needing to get away from Grafton ourselves for a few days & get back to nature so we did the loop from Grafton along the Old Grafton/Glen Innis Rd then back along the Gwyder Hwy past Washpool & along the way checking out all the camping spots.
We're planning the same trip in a week or so and camping for a couple of nights in a private little spot right on the river about 500mtr from the official nat park camping spot near the old town of Dalmorton
It is a magic drive if you don't mind the odd pothole in the dirt section. The scenery compares to any we found on our 2 years travel around Aus
Cheers
Jon
Zoomtopz said
02:26 PM Mar 12, 2012
I think you mean Oberon Chris , Orbost is in Mex on Princes Hwy .
Done that one in 'old Inter' & Wombeyan Caves . But I knew that way
anyway as a couple of us used to use that way from a quarry , seems we
sometimes had an extra lb or two on , occaisionally a tourist would blink
once or twice , seeing a semi-tipper coming at them .
I find doing 'th old GI or 'old Grafton rd' from GI to Grafton , as you 'get
off th Gib Range' then it is relatively flat along th river s banks , Mann ,
Guy Fawkes , Boyd & Nymboida . Usually when I am out that way , it is
for bushfires & it is on Top of th range , known as Blacksmiths Workshop &
Cunglebung , Great country If you are a 'Bushie' , big heaps of Tall grey
gum . Cunglebung takes you to th w/side of Nym riv of Nymboida Nat Pk ,
which is on s/side of Gwydir Hwy of Welshpool Nat pk .
DON'T forget 3.27m tunnel 65k from Gwydir , we can get 10ton Fire-truck
through , it curves in a bit at th top bit IT Is 3.27m Clearence.
Richo
Gerty Dancer said
06:35 PM Mar 12, 2012
An amendment to my earlier post... we do all this back-track driving Without the van!
Chris I can understand how you felt about that Abercrombie road, also the Wombeyan caves road. Both narrow gravel steep and winding. Thats where we were when my partner had his heart attack... driving him out was a test for me, but we got here ok.
Yestee we went from Grafton up to Glen Innes for their Minerama .
I bought one Clear Crystal . Herself , being 'th rockhound' in th family
bought up pretty well .
So then .
We went up to Glen via Gwyder . Came home via Old Glen Innes Road ,
mostly all dirt pretty narrow in places very hilly . Fantastic scenery . You
get th drift . Heaps of campers along th rivers . Me thinks , I could take a
drive like this Every w/end .
When we are away, theres nothing we enjoy more than going off the main drag, my partner loves to put the 4WD to use and we always have a picnic lunch ready. .... Hardly ever do it when at home though.
You are right, Zoomtopz, the scenery and the general peace is sooo worth it.
Your right , that is a very good drive , & a great little camp site just when you drop off the Grafton/ Glenn road onto the river. Also some good camps ontop of the range area.
Happy camping,
JC.
Years ago we took a back track up near Bellingen somewhere and would never take it again. It was very pretty, very windy and single track in some places. 2 of my brothers at the time told me that they had been on the same road ONCE!
In Tassie we took an inland route somewhere in the Northern side instead of a 20 k trip it was much longer but well worth the drive. We went past some young blue gum plantations that we would not have seen if we had stuck to the main drag.
Have to chuckle again we took an inland track somewhere in the eastern side. the maps said it went through to Mytle bank from the Lilydale side - we saw forest lots of it!! an hour or so later it spat us gratefully back out where we went in!! I knew something was wrong when the cows we passed early in the piece looked at us with that what tha look on their faces
There's a sign at the top advising it wasn't suitable for caravans, BUT no where to turn around, so I pressed on.
By the time I arrived at Orbost I think, I was ready for a pint of wine on the rocks with a straw, and no ice. When I parked up at Bathurst I was a wreck. Blow the wine! Pass the Bundy.
We have been needing to get away from Grafton ourselves for a few days & get back to nature so we did the loop from Grafton along the Old Grafton/Glen Innis Rd then back along the Gwyder Hwy past Washpool & along the way checking out all the camping spots.
We're planning the same trip in a week or so and camping for a couple of nights in a private little spot right on the river about 500mtr from the official nat park camping spot near the old town of Dalmorton
It is a magic drive if you don't mind the odd pothole in the dirt section. The scenery compares to any we found on our 2 years travel around Aus
Cheers
Jon
I think you mean Oberon Chris , Orbost is in Mex on Princes Hwy .
Done that one in 'old Inter' & Wombeyan Caves . But I knew that way
anyway as a couple of us used to use that way from a quarry , seems we
sometimes had an extra lb or two on , occaisionally a tourist would blink
once or twice , seeing a semi-tipper coming at them .
I find doing 'th old GI or 'old Grafton rd' from GI to Grafton , as you 'get
off th Gib Range' then it is relatively flat along th river s banks , Mann ,
Guy Fawkes , Boyd & Nymboida . Usually when I am out that way , it is
for bushfires & it is on Top of th range , known as Blacksmiths Workshop &
Cunglebung , Great country If you are a 'Bushie' , big heaps of Tall grey
gum . Cunglebung takes you to th w/side of Nym riv of Nymboida Nat Pk ,
which is on s/side of Gwydir Hwy of Welshpool Nat pk .
DON'T forget 3.27m tunnel 65k from Gwydir , we can get 10ton Fire-truck
through , it curves in a bit at th top bit IT Is 3.27m Clearence.
Richo
An amendment to my earlier post... we do all this back-track driving Without the van!
Chris I can understand how you felt about that Abercrombie road, also the Wombeyan caves road. Both narrow gravel steep and winding. Thats where we were when my partner had his heart attack... driving him out was a test for me, but we got here ok.