Across the road from our accommodation, daylight reveals the enormity of the Big Merino – they come in all sheeps and sizes but this is the biggest!

Inside the belly of the beast. We could only see out through the nostrils – they had pulled the wool over his eyes.

Morton National Park

Mountain devil

Cedar wattle

Wildflower  and waratah leaves

Fitzroy Falls

Banksia spinulosa

Ferns on the track near the Grotto – a jumble of collapsed sandstone in a steep gully

On the walk back from The Grotto

All of a spudden at Robertson we sighted The Big Potato. It stood in starch contrast against grey skies. We also drove down the road to where Babe was filmed (Farmer Hoggets farm).

It was a very overcast afternoon and our youngest travelling member’s keen eye spotted a wombat in a paddock on a back road near Robertson.

Wombat on the move

The cows took an interest in the wombat too and chased it across a paddock.

On the walk at Barren Gounds  – a flora and fauna reserve of elevated heath plains. This is on the walk to the heath.

Epacris heath

Gum blossom

Leptospermum in the heath

Lots of banksias

Boronia

We didn’t see any wombats at Barren Grounds but found this wombat hole

Range road from Robertson to Jamberoo

The Blowhole at Kiama

From the Bulli Pass looking out over Wollongong