Hay, Hay, It’s Wednesday.

1st May 2024

Distance: 318 Km

Fuel: 34L

Temora to Hay

Woke at 6.30am and went for a shower. The temperature must have been in single figures because it was cold but a hot shower soon warmed me up and I kept warm by donning one of my feather puffer jackets until the sun made its presence felt.

Left Temora at 9am, heading for Hay, again a well trodden route but not so far to travel today. Pretty easy journey with little traffic, I think I was overtaken twice and I over took one caravan.

As I said it was cool, I had the heater on in the car for the first couple of hours though the sun was out and it was a very pleasant day, didn’t use the A/C at all. Filled up with fuel at Narrandera where it was under $2 a litre.

Apart from the fuel stop only stopped once more at a rest stop around lunch time to stretch my legs and have a sandwich. The sides of the road looked like it had snowed, obviously the cotton harvest was in full swing with the sides of the road covered in cotton from the trucks transporting it

Arrived at the Hay Caravan Park about 2pm and took a powered site – when I was here last September a powered site was $29 now it is $39 – prices everywhere have gone mad.

After setting up and making a cup of tea drove to Hay township (about 3km away) for fuel and a look around. Hay must have been very prosperous at one time, so many its older, grander buildings were once owned by banks (not that it isn’t a thriving town now).