It rained most of the night but cleared early today and got to around 19c in the afternoon so things are improving on that front. Had a lazy morning sitting in the sun reading then off to view the open cut gold mine, quite impressive indeed. We then walked the 6km heritage trail and were quite surprised at the size of Cobar. Had a takeaway lunch at the reservoir accompanied by some cattle and not much else then went down to the new tank (local description for lak...

Hi friends, what would you think of when I say to you "Outback" maybe sun scourced land, heat, red soil, mirages, NO not today we have driven about 400km to the "outback" to Cobar and on the way it rained lightly for about 2/3 hours along red deep soils muddy with puddles. We saw wild goats, emus, sheep and cattle with lots of scrubby bush and long straight roads. As for MIke's magic touch that turns everything to mush, its easing not too many things have gone wr...