Our new adventure began with our daughters giving us a surprise going away dinner and supper with close friends. One of our best mates and old travel companions, Wayne, made us a going away cake with the words, " The start of the big adventure !"
On the second day after overnighting in a free stopover at Berry Park in Bathurst, which we can recommend, we began our travel through the diverse country of western NSW. From the green hills of the central west around Orange to the flat plains from Dubbo to Bourke, where the soil soon changed to the red dirt we remember. Around Narromine we found the cotton crops had already been brought in and baled ready for transport.
Thursday morning arrived and found us woken early in a free stopover, the Teamsters Rest in Nyngan, first by a shunt train at 4am, then the street sweepers at 6am. So giving up on sleep we made an early start towards Burke and eventually Cunnamulla. The following photos were taken in one of those small towns which is slowly dying, Girilambone out of Nyngan. The house is gracefully vacant and derelict, the shop is closed and up for sale.
We are now resting in a park in Cunnamulla, where I think I will use my Amaysim/Optus phone for the last time before losing service and changing it across to a low use package (prepaid). We will rely on family calling in for the next couple of nights and our Telstra 4g internet.
Posted by Lynne
