Today we headed over to Bathurst to return the hire car now that we had our own car back again and about to give it a good run over the Easter holiday. And it was another beautiful warm and sunny day with all the colours of Autumn on display.

We had originally planned to drive around the Mount Panorama Race Circuit with our caravan in tow on the way to Orange but our late start and car issues last week prevented that so today we were going to make good and at least drive our own car around the track – except we couldn’t. And this time it wasn’t for any issue with the car – the circuit was closed in preparation for the Hi-tec Oils Bathurst 6-hr event. The circuit is only closed 5-times a year and we happened to pick one of them. So we had to be satisfied with a photograph… from a distance.

It was a very sad day for our family with the sudden and unexpected passing of one of my elderly relatives in the UK. It’s hard to hear news like this from so far away when there is little you can do to help comfort the family. God bless and Rest In Peace.