One Small Lap
Up early and start the packup and we’re out by about 9:30. 210km today.
As we are headed on the road to Dunedoo, we never actually go through the centre of Dubbo. About 50km out of Dubbo and we drive into this thick fog, up until now the skies have been pretty clear. After Goolma it clears again.
Continue reading “Day 18 – Dubbo to Sofala”
We’re not up as early as I would have liked. So we won’t be at the zoo at opening time. There are several ways you can get around Dubbo Zoo, you can drive your car, or hire these oversized golf buggies, we got the buggy last time we came here 6 or 7 years ago.
Continue reading “Day 17 – Taronga Western Plains Zoo.”
Nice and warm in the van with the heater ticking over all night. Given it’s 170km, and we already booked in, we’re in no rush this morning.
Continue reading “Day 16 – Nyngan to Dubbo”
The title says it, but that’s not how the day specifically started. Again a really cold night, but at least this morning we can put the fan heater on. A long day today, not sure how far we’ll get but we’d like to get somewhere between Cobar and Dubbo. 400 to 600 km.
Continue reading “Day 15 – White Cliffs to Nyngan”
We got up this morning, and as it’s pretty cold. Went to put the fan heater on, nope nothing. We realised there’s no 240v power. Liam said he saw the microwave (that needs 240) clock 20 or 30 mins ago, but it’s out now. We overhear some other people talking about a power outage, so it’s not just us. Fortunately, like most places, its warmer out in the sun than inside the van in the morning,
Continue reading “Day 14 – White Cliffs – Paroo-Darling NP”
We left the diesel heater running for a while last night and on it’s lowest setting didn’t over heat the van, so with a couple of windows just open we left it running overnight. So this morning it’s warm, but not too stuffy in the van.
Continue reading “Day 13 – Tibooburra to White Cliffs”
Alarm set for 7, but after being awake since 6, I’m up just after 6:30. It’s a really fresh morning in the van as we’ve got no power for either the electric or diesel heater. No one wants to get out from under the blankets. Eventually we all get going. Justine packs food just in case we can’t cross. I get the car ready. Just before we leave we talk to the park supervisor to see what options we have for power. She says we can use the generator during the day and without much conviction, says she will let us know if she can allocate a powered site if someone else leaves.
Continue reading “Day 12, Cameron Corner run (oh, and someone’s birthday!)”
While I wake several times during the early morning, at about 7 I wake to the sound of rain, it’s not heavy, but given we’re on this muddy river bank and the road out is a steep track back to the roadway I figure we shouldn’t hang around. As it turns out after about 15mins the rain stops, so the urgency is gone, but we’re up now, so while we’ll go we can afford to wash and pack up properly. Our shoes now have literally 2cm of mud stuck to the bottom of them, this is mud like I’ve never seen before. It is like glue. It is the literal shit on a stick. A stick will not get it off! I need to change shoes to get in the car to drive off.
Continue reading “Day 11 Wanaaring to Tibooburra”
Fresh, but at least it’s not raining. Oddly it still seems to take us nearly and hour and a half to get up, feed, and packed ready to go. The track out is pretty easy in the end, and we drive back to town to visit the Brewarrina Fish Traps at the Aboriginal Cultural Museum. I’d read about these while researching the trip. Considered the oldest man-made structures in the world.
Continue reading “Day 10 – Brewarrina to Wanaaring”
… Been out of contact for a few days, no internet…..
The park is still busy as we pack up. We check the radar for rain, but fortunately most of it is south of us, around Coonamble. Just before 10 we head off. One last time through town and we hit the road to Walgett. About 7 or 8km out of town is Stanley, a huge Emu Sculpture made of amongst other things several VW beetles, so we stop for a quick photo opp.
Continue reading “Day 9 – Lightning Ridge to Brewarrina”