August’s run saw 12 cars meet at the Hall lay-by for a rather chilly start for our day out to Wyangala Dam and Cowra, led by Norm and Roz. It was tops up to begin with, as it started to rain, but otherwise the trip to Boorowa for morning tea at the Superb Bakery was a good MX 5 drive. The weather brightened a bit so the next leg saw most of us put the roof down as we drove past encouragingly full creeks and splashed through water course dips. It was good to travel on a road most of us had not been on before. On the way we passed an old coaching inn, some emus and a very bogged tractor and we did see the elusive Superb Parrot. After a photo stop at Wyangala Dam, we crossed the dam wall, from where we could see the old concrete dam form the 1930s on our return. Although the water level was certainly quite low, it was a big improvement from when we did the recce earlier in the year.

We continued through Darbys Falls (no waterfall, but named because a man called Darby fell over here!) to Cowra, where the Japanese Gardens Café served up a very enjoyable lunch.

Some of the group took a tour of the gardens then we drove up past the POW camp to the War Cemetery. After a walk around the Japanese and Australian war graves, we met up again at the Visitor’s centre and headed for home through quite heavy rain.