Eastern Victoria

Beth54 · Guru

RE: Eastern Victoria

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

The absolutely BEST time to visit Victoria is between late March and mid May ... Autumn is the most stable weather time ... minimum temps around 8-10degC and maximum temps 22-24DegC. Not much wind, and pretty much sunny all day most days.

And of course autumn means COLOUR ..... fantastic in some areas - heaps of colourful trees. If you had visited Buchan Caves in mid May you would have loved it .... autumn colours all over the trees and the ground.

Cheers - John

oldboar · Senior Member

Beth, not sure how you intend travelling back through NSW but after picking up our new van at Nowra the other day, found the trip from Nowra to Nerrigan, Tarago, Goulburn, Yass, Boorowa, Cowra, Forbes really easy. Good roads & no bad hill climbs (surprisingly easy actually). Only problem may be BIL's rig as there's a 5 tonne limit on a bridge between Nerrigan & Tarago. This can be bypassed by going Nerrigan, Braidwood, Tarago (about 15km of good dirt). After Cowra, an alternative could be Canowindra, Cudal, Molong, Wellington, Gulgong (remainder as per prior post) which bypasses the Newell. In my experience, the Nowra-Nerrigan climb is by far the easiest up the mountains prior to Mt Ousley at Wollongong

Darrell

neilnruth · Guru

I say ditto to oldboar's suggestions. Have done the trip often and while Nerrigan, Braidwood is longer, it is a more gentle way of crossing the mountain than the Clyde Mtn out of Batemans bay.

Beth54 · Guru

Thanks oldboar and Ruth, but we're going Mt Ously and out to Richmond, then up the New England. I was originally a bit iffy about the climb up the New England, but after the mountains Lucy has climbed with not much effort, I think she'll be fine. I've been pleasantly surprised by just how easily she's been doing.

i30's ROCK!

I've started another thread now as we're homeward bound.