Sirdan’s pics from the Wollongong trip

See To Wollongong with Sirdan — more than the usual Sunday lunch. I have sharpened the pics in Photofiltre since first publishing them earlier.

 

Royal National Park: Hacking River at Audley

 

Otford Lookout 1

Towns I’ve stayed in 5 — Gilgandra

I was an honorary member of the Gilgandra RSL for a few days. Why? I was, along with my much-esteemed old friend and colleague R D Walshe, a visiting speaker at an in-service series at Gilgandra High School in the mid to late 70s dealing with “new” approaches to HSC English. I also took the opportunity to visit the parents of a young woman with whom I had been briefly associated in Wollongong who hailed from Gilgandra. They had a typical property – sheep and wheat — out of town. It was a good couple of days.

Like so many country towns, Gil has had its problems so far this century: