Thursday 22 June 2017

MacCullouchs Range to Nyngan : 325kms


Monday, 19th June.

'Twas a sunny day, not a cloud day was in the sky....

We delayed our departure this morning to wait for the sun to rise high enough so that we wouldn't be looking directly into it and to reduce the risk of encountering wildlife on the road, leaving at 9.00a.m. after farewelling our neighbours who had also stayed at the Broken Hill racecourse, and whom we'd first met at the sculptures, and shooing off the goats who had come scavenging at first light.

There was plenty of wildlife along the road....many, many goats, lots of emus, a few roos, one of which bounded across the road in front of us but not close enough to cause any trouble, several flocks of sheep and four cows.

The first stop was at Emmdale Roadhouse for fuel and here we were served by a German girl, then at the Meadow Glen rest area for a healthy 'smoko' of fruit and the next stop was at Cobar, arriving at noon.  After a walk up and down the main street, we called in at the Hot Bake Shop to buy a pie each.  Cobar is a quite large town with wide streets, very neat, very clean looking and very friendly.

From there we drove through increasingly greener countryside and farmlands to Nyngan for our overnighter at a large caravan park alongside the Bogan River where we were checked in by an English girl, from Bath.  When settled in we enjoyed sitting in the sunshine  for an hour or so doing very little, then as the sun was doing a disappearing act we strolled to the river before returning to cook a barbecue dinner.

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