Lightning Ridge

We spent four nights in the Lightning Ridge Caravan Park, this gave us plenty of time to look around the town and the surrounding area. There are plenty of things to do in town, including visiting some of the mines, following the car door tours going to the Club in the Scrub and, of course, drooling in the many opal shops. I have to admit, opals are not my favourite gemstone, but…the colours in some of these opals are jaw dropping.

While in the area, we went to the Culgoa Flood Plain National Park. This straddles the NSW – QLD border, which we crossed four times while exploring the park. We even stopped for a beer in Hebel, QLD. This was the first time we have been in our home state since the beginning of May.

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I think Culgoa is the least cared-for NP that we have visited to date. Saying that, it is a lovely area and we had fun exploring over the nearly non-existent tracks. We had hoped to drive through the park from south-east to the north-west, but without a map and with a fair bit of water lying around we decided to turn tail and head back home, but not before nearly getting bogged a couple of times. We should have taken the hint from the NP’s name. Once back home we checked the map and found that we had not been following a road but a walking track…

Maybe it’s the time of year, but we haven’t seen a lot of birds or wildlife as we’ve been travelling. But, the roads to and around Lightning Ridge are home to more than a few Emu’s and we saw our first big Red Kangaroos.

Winter in central NSW is proving to be a great time of year for sunsets. The stormy cloud formations creating texture and depth that leech the colour out of the falling sun.

See you out there somewhere

On tow and on the go!