There are three caravan parks in Broken Hill. Lake View caravan Park – This had terrible reviews. We drove in, drove around and promptly drove back out again. You’d have to be desperate to stay there. Broken Hill Tourist Park – This one was right in the middle of town. It had great reviews, …
Before I start this post, I want to thank Rae and Les for their help in identifying some of the birds from my last post, it’s great to have the feedback. The Darling River Run begins with the Barwon River at Walgett (the Darling starts at Bourke) and goes through to Wentworth. The entire …
Ok, I mentioned the birds here at Gundabooka a couple of times, but apart from the Emus, I haven’t shown you any. Well, I spent many, many hours stalking these tiny, little, flighty, annoyingly fast birds who would appear in a flash, only to disappear as soon as I lifted my camera to my …
Gundabooka is a remote park south-west of Bourke, the first National Park on ‘The Darling River Run’. Driving on dirt roads is not always smooth but we enjoyed it. We took our time and enjoyed the scenery, avoided wildlife and missed most of the washouts and rough patches of road, but it was impossible …
Peter has had a bit of a craving for scones for a while now, so I thought, why not try them in the camp oven. Never done it before, but we’ll give it a go. If they work out, all well and good, if they don’t…well, we could both do with losing a bit …
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Picture this. You’re pottering around the camp, cleaning up after breakfast when you look up and right there in front of you, not more than ten metres away, is an Emu. How cool is that? When we first saw it, we froze, not wanting to startle it, then slowly, ever so slowly I reached …
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What can I say about Bourke? Hmm, not a lot actually. We stayed in Bourke for seven days, out of necessity really; admin, cleaning, washing that sort of thing, but overall we found Bourke to be uninspiring. Don’t get me wrong the people were friendly, we were in a nice park, but we found …
There’s good and bad to rain in the outback. The good is obvious. Good for the crops. Good for stock. Good for wildlife. Good for our country. The bad is only obvious when you drive the many dirt roads that kris-cross across central NSW. We drove across 120 kms of dirt road, most of …
Lighting Ridge is a unique part of central NSW. It is essentially an opal mining town, whose main claims to fame are the rare Black Opal, artesian bore baths and some very quirky people, I think it is a place that should be visited at least once in a lifetime. https://lightningridgeinfo.com.au/ We spent four …
After leaving the Warrumbungle’s, we stayed a couple of nights in a little town called Gulargambone. Cute name, right? Gulargambone is a very small town, just under four-hundred residents, on the banks of the Castlereagh River. It was a lovely little caravan park, and as you can imaging we made good use of it’s …
