Day 63: Wellington to Medlow Bath via Rockley, 320km

Rockley and Bathurst have changed a lot since we used to go there regularly, for the better. Before we got there, we found this place on the main road at Molong. Looked like an abandoned junkyard, with no one around but piles of metal junk and hidden amongst them were these weird large-scale sculptures.

Look closely, there is a very large motor cycle sculpture behind the scrap

Rockley pub

We booked lunch at Matt Moran's restaurant at Rockley pub. The pub looks similar from the outside and has had a minor clean up inside, and it was surprisingly popular. For a town of about 200 people, half an hour from Bathurst and on the way to nowhere, I thought he would go out of business but it's still going, and a cute gift shop has opened up opposite. Lunch was great. Michele got the "market fish" which, of course, turned out to be barramundi.

Port chop with apple and macadamia

Bathurst also looked much better. We noticed some new trendy cafes and two pubs that had been refurbished and looked pretty inviting. Also a lot of new shops and a new railway museum in the "railway precinct" at the station. We passed an old church at Perthville on the way to Rockley that we have passed many times before but is now for sale, but it comes with a graveyard, with recently deceased people in it! There was a visitor there when we looked around. Not sure how many offers they will get.

Anyway, made it back to our place at Medlow in time to get the fire going. We spent the afternoon unpacking and starting to clean the car. Days 64-67 will be spent here washing clothes and cars and chilling out. That gives us a few days back in Sydney before starting back in our usual routine on Monday week. We now have to plan our next trips that will cover the bits we missed: Victoria and Tasmania, the east coast and northern tip, and the south-west and west coast.