My parents have some property near Taree and I stayed there over the last couple of days and did some mapping.

Yesterday I just did a few country roads in our area. The property is at Firefly and I linked it up with Krambach properly. Also mapped all 3 streets of Krambach. The diary entry map link should get you to this.

I drove home to Newcastle today and figured a few detours wouldn't hurt.

First one was to map Wootton Way, it's a section of the Old Pacific Highway that runs from Cooloongolook (spelt?) to Bulahdelah. It's one of the most fun sections of road I've ever driven! It's really twisty and really wide. Often there are "2" lanes, ie a main lane and an overtaking lane, but since there's no traffic on this road (I saw 1 other car the whole length of it) you can just fang all over it :p. Link: osm.org/?lat=-32.292&lon=152.2469&zoom=13&layers=0B00FTF

At Bulahdelah I had a poke around the state forest on the East side. Can't remember the name of it, but drove up a trail that leads to an old quarry. The trail was very steep, single lane and very rocky. The Ford Fiesta I was driving almost didn't make it. Good fun! There are a few walking tracks around here that I didn't do (had to get home eventually) but will hopefully map at a later date. There's a picnic area, toilets and playground at the start of the track. Link: osm.org/?lat=-32.41572&lon=152.2171&zoom=16&layers=0B00FTF

Next was Booral road. I first drove this road as a Pacific highway detour. Back before the Karuah bypass was built the holiday traffic would line up for about 20km North of Karuah (it had a set of traffic lights). Booral Road was a right hand turn off the highway (heading South) just South of Bulahdelah which links up with The Buckets Way. It's also very twisty, but is a 2 lane country back road so not as fun as Wootton Way. Link (hopefully, it hasn't rendered yet): osm.org/?lat=-32.4642&lon=152.0768&zoom=12&layers=0B00FTF

Lastly I surveyed Tomago Road, just South of Raymond Terrace. Link: osm.org/?lat=-32.8305&lon=151.7651&zoom=13&layers=0B00FTF

Oh, and I traced around the Wallamba Nature Reserve from Landsat, and some of the Wallamba River. Link: osm.org/?lat=-32.1344&lon=152.3091&zoom=13&layers=0B00FTF

Hopefully the osmarender layer will update soon...