Day 8
The day started with wonderful sunshine. Our day also started slowly this morning as Alan and Michael had to
replace the manifold gasket on the Cream 12/50. Fortunately both being very capable this was done quite quickly but it did mean we didn't get away until about 10:45.
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| Noeline and Maritta wait - taking in the warm sunshine in Goulburn. |
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| Peter holds the brolly while Alan and Michael set about changing the head gasket. |
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| Goulburn's "Big Merino" |
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| All Alvis's are back on the road heading for Mayfield Park just before Oberon. |
Once on the road we had a pleasant,
although tiring, drive to Mayfield Gardens for lunch. The road had some very serious hills
along the way which required Alan to once again select 1
st gear on a number of occasions and even though we left a good 45 minutes after everyone else we made it
to the Gardens just in time for our 1pm lunch appointment.
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| Several of the Alvis's cut a fine figure in the Garden's carpark. Richard (on the phone) was busy keeping Pauline informed of his progress. |
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| The extensive Mayfield gardens from the lookout - has a large variety of plants and unusual vegetables. |
The lunch was excellent with a variety of fresh cut sandwiches, a lovely garden salad and finished off with a delightful in-house made caramel slice. The staff
couldn’t have been more helpful or friendly.
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| David and Bev ponder the gardens. The stone walls are amazing - dry wall stacked stone. |
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| Adrian leaves lunch and heads off to take in the gardens. |
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| Lesley and Bob admire the stone walls. |
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| Back on the road heading for Leura |
Now the roads get a little more interesting - from there we proceeded through Oberon and Black Heath, over
a few more big hills and up into the beautiful Blue Mountains arriving in Leura for our overnight stop. Tonight we are having dinner in Fairmont's dining room and Noeline has a general knowledge quiz for us to battle our way through.
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| The 12/50 merges into the Great Western Highway and back into traffic. |
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| Heading up into the Blue Mountains. |
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