Somewhere over the rainbows...

Tonight we find ourselves on the outskirts of a little town called Barrington not far from Gloucester. We have spent the previous couple of nights in the very foggy and mostly wet Barrington Tops where we enjoyed a couple of good sessions chasing rainbow trout in the Manning river and Pol Blue creek. All in all we managed 18 rainbows and 1 brown trout. The fish were mostly small but still great fun on our 3 and 4 weight fly rods. Unfortunately due to the fog there weren't too many sights to see but we enjoyed ourselves immensely all the same. We even spied a male lyre bird in full plumage as he took flight across the road to avoid us. This afternoon on our trip down from the tops we pulled over to look at a small red bellied black snake trying to swallow a rather large frog someone had previously run over. We also happened upon a pair of water dragons, neither of which would allow Bronson close enough to affect a wrangling! Tomorrow we're planning on heading north along Thunderbolts way towards Armidale where Ruth's mum was born. Apart from the fog in the Tops, the weather hasn't been too bad. A rather nasty looking thunderstorm passed over us today without incident. For a while it looked as though we were going to cop it. The cooler temperatures in the mountains made for much better sleeping conditions but the nights will once again be warmer now that we're closer to sea level. That's about all the news we have for now. We will probably be out of reception for the next day or two until we hit Armidale. Take it easy peoples!

PS. Damon, you were right. The pub at Moonan Flats is an absolute corker!