Our roadtrip  along the Princes’ Highway continued today and after a couple of nights in Merimbula we were quite sad leave. Unfortunately the kangaroos weren’t initially around for William to say goodbye to which meant sad faces all around. However as we were driving down the drive to go, they all popped out which then meant happy faces all around!

Today was our last proper long driving day (around 4 1/2 hours), but the scenery seemed much nicer now we’ve crossed the border and it seemed to go faster and more smoothly all around. For the previous few days we’ve been tending to go through a lot of forests and woodland which, while very lovely, has tended to get fairly monotonous after a while. Today, however, we were treated to spectacular vistas of beautiful hills, rolling green countryside, pretty little historic towns such as Tilba Tilba and some beautiful coastal scenery.

Whichever way you drive into Kangaroo Valley it involves a drive along a fairly  narrow, wiggly road that switchbacks up and up before dropping down again into the valley below. It’s well worth it though as it’s probably the prettiest place we’ve been to so far on our trip. We’re staying at Minimbah Farm in a beautiful little cottage and, to rip off their own marketing, it has “views to live for”. There’s a great Play Fort for Wills to run around on and alpacas, goats and chickens to feed.

We popped into Kangaroo Valley village to have a bite to eat at the local pub and then were looking forward to a nice glass of wine on the verandah while Mstr Walker nodded off in his room. He, however, had other ideas and it took him a good two hours to get to sleep, by which time we were exhausted and ready for bed!