A fairly smooth trip yesterday from Blackheath to Mittagong, basically the Great Western Highway and then the Hume Motorway, so a straight forward drive. Mittagong is the gateway to the southern highlands and we’re here for 3 days before heading to the coast on Wednesday.

The southern highlands is an historical area approx 100 k’s south west of Sydney. First settled not long after the first fleet arrived in Sydney, so very similar to Windsor north west of Sydney. The area is very green with lush pastures for cattle and horses and a lot of historic buildings and attractions.

Yesterday after arriving and setting up we did a bit of shopping and a quick walk around Mittagong. Antiques and Cafes are the prime tourist haunts in town and we visited a few of them.

Today we headed off to visit Berrima, MossVale and Fitzroy Falls. Berrima is a very historic village and probably the Mecca for tourists, certainly on a weekend. It’s not just the old buildings that are an attraction, the whole village gives off a welcoming ambience that is most noticeable. We travelled thru Moss Vale today on our way to Fitzroy Falls but will see more of it tomorrow along with Bowral. I hadn’t been to Fitzroy Falls since 1983 and so far on this trip all the falls we’ve been to have had little water because of the drought. With lots of rain overnight I thought we’d get lucky this time we we weren’t disappointed as the falls had heaps of water as the photos show below.