Cootamundra - Wagga Wagga via Junee

Total Distance travelled today
View Larger Map Our journey takes us along the Olympic Highway through Junee which is 53.3kms between Cootamundra to Junee. As we leave Cootamundra we experience very nice scenery, very green paddocks, as we are now in the Riverina area, paddocks of wheat which has been harvested recently. The plains are mainly crop growing with sheep. Junee is a medium sized town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The town's prosperity and mixed services economy is based on a combination of agriculture, rail transport, light industry and government services, and in particular correctional services. In 2011 Junee's urban population was 4,400. We drove around Junee trying to find a tourist information centre, we eventually found it at the large aquatic centre, a little worse for ware as it did not have very much information at all about Junee. We did not find Junee a very attractive town, but also must say we did not spend much time in it. On our way again this time heading for Wagga Wagga where we will spend the night. Just a little out of Junee at the cross roads we found a small eatery called "Jail Break Inn" as we are getting closer to the countryside where Ned Kelly roamed and the owner has some relation to the Kelly gang he has set it up with some memorabilia which can be purchased from there. Whilst driving into Wagga Wagga we crossed over the great Murrumbidgee River. The Murrumbidgee River, a major tributary of the Murray River within the Murray–Darling basin, flows through the Australian state of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory; descending 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) as it flows 900 kilometres (559 mi) in a west-northwesterly direction from the foot of Peppercorn Hill in the Fiery Range of the Snowy Mountains towards its confluence with the Murray River near Boundary Bend. The word Murrumbidgee means "big water" in the Wiradjuri language, the local Aboriginal language. After crossing a rather long bridge as even though the river is not very wide now, but when the snow is melting it becomes a torrent hence the long bridge. We found a great caravan park on the banks of the Murrumbidgee - called Beach Front Caravan Park - it has a boom gate where a swipe card is required to gain vehicle access to the park. The cost for one night was $28, the showers were very good, lovely and hot with very good pressure.