Another 120 km day with mixed weather - didn't know to have the raincoat on or off. We made the decision to leave Yass and tke the Hume Highway for about 3 km which was not a problem other than the noise. There were two lanes for the traffic and another nice wide shoulder for us. We made it to "Bowning" and discovered a wonderful old railway station now disused and the pub was closed at 9:00 AM on a Sunday morning - there seemed not to be anything else in town then Peter said he may have found a cafe! Well, he had, and what a cafe it turned out to be. It was a replica "slab hut" that the owner's late husband created from their dream pre 2010 before he passed away. It really took my fancy and the ambience and story it has made up for "yesterday's scone" which would have been absolutely magnificent on the day/s past when it was baked! But like I said everything else was superb.
Again we were relatively high up for most of the day travelling through wonderful lush green farmland that is difficult to imagine as being scorched and barren come summer. There certainly is some large scale farming goin on here with one wheat paddock that I saw that was probably 400 or 500 hundred acres.
Peter disturbed a mob/herd/group of kangaroos that then took off across the road and over the fence as they do. Later on he spotted a dead snake and we had a fox run across the road in front of us.
There was quite a bit of climbing today and by the time we got to Harden at 1:30 we were ready for some lunch. After checking out the main street of this rural town where the only surviving store was the grocers - all else vacant and in a sad state of repair. We then headed up to the golf club that also did meals and today's Sunday Roast was chicken so that's what we sat down and had knowing that we only had 40 km to go.
A good day to have behind us and also it marks our halfway point at six day's riding and about 600 km's travelled.
After Harden there were more undulating hills although we also began to lose some of our elevation so there was more downhill than up and we got in to Coota mundra around 5:00 PM.
The three cups of tea have gone some wat to quenching the thirst!
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