I have been travelling for a couple of days now with out the camera on the caravan. For some reason there is no feed getting through to the screen. I have checked all the connections with no luck.

So before I start pulling wires, replacing the one section between the car and van would be the logical choice to try and eliminate the problem. Or so you would think.

After hunting around Tamworth yesterday with no luck, I spent the morning checking the last few stores that may have the lead. It seems that a caravan camera lead is not an easy thing to find.

I even stopped into Steptoe Caravans on the way out of town but they only had a couple of Polaris leads that use a different plug. Autobarn had a whole new wiring kit at $179 but I am not ready to spend that much money given that the original install including the camera and screen was $150.

Only had 106 kilometres to travel today but managed to make that last all day with a diversion to the Apsley Falls on the Oxley Highway. As you travel towards the area, it is rolling hills and farmland, not a landscape you would expect gorges and waterfalls. I was starting to wonder if I had taken a wrong turn.

Soon enough there was a sign to the left and a bitumen track into a National Park that lead down to a carpark. A couple of hundred metre walk and wow, there it was. A deep, steep gorge had been gouged out of the land over millions of years.

On the car park side, you walked down flights of stairs to lookouts that hung out over the gorge and took your breathe away.

Back up the top, you then took a suspension bridge to get to the other side of the gorge to get an even more breathtaking view from above the sheer cliffs down to the Apsley River below.

If you are ever in the area of Walcha, make sure you take the drive to Apsley Falls, you will not be disappointed.

On the way to Armidale from Walcha is the town of Uralla. I needed to stop in this town and was going to find the local scout hall with no success, as growing up, 1st Uralla was my cub pack and scout troop but back in South Australia. It no longer exists over in SA and maybe they don’t have one here either.

What I did find was “Thunderbolt” the bush ranger, well his statue. He used to rob mail coaches and homes back in the 1870’s in the area before the law caught up with him and shot him.

Pulled into Armidale on dusk and will have a look around town in the morning before heading into Queensland. One observation as I travelled through town is that there is just about a school of some sort on every second corner. A lot of education going on here.