The scenery became rural immediately, and diving through the lovely towns of Narromine, Trangie and Nyngan showed all the traits of such country townships. The city centre dominated by the one street, complete with three pubs generally named the Grand, the Royal and the Great Western (or close variations).
Saw our first emus outside of Trangie, as well as all of the free cotton on the side of the road. There’s a fortune there just waiting for the right person to come along and pick it all up. I am not that person. The tumbleweeds also spoke of the lack of townsfolk we saw on a Saturday morning. Saw some free range mustering of cattle along the highway near Nyngan, a reminder of the old driving days of yore. Well not really but that’s what I told the kids.
Josh bought the farm having three times not turned his iPad off when told to and lost it for the rest of the trip. Funny how he then started to see stuff like the red dust storm along the way and the many dead kangaroos. Sometimes it’s hard to believe there are any live kangaroos left in Australia.. we haven’t seen a live one yet.
Arrived in Cobar before 1.00pm where the kids insisted on Subway for lunch. We then had at look at Mount Bourke lookout and the Historic Copper site, though for a $30 entry fee we decided to just look thought the fence.
By 3.30pm it was back to the caravan park, where having spent about half an hour checking over a fried Anderson plug (still working but probably not going to keep the fridge going along the way anymore) and van door that just doesn’t sit properly (livable but slightly annoying) it was time for happy hour, which coincidentally was the wifi password.
Will cook dinner shortly before settling in to watch Collingwood beat the Giants (the rest of the family hope the opposite) and see if the Dragons can repeat last weeks performance and take down the Rabbitohs.
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