Temp: 24-25 deg C: 33-77% humidity Distance: 446km; total: 2 058km Start time: 8:35am, arrival: 3:30pm After a breakfast of cereal and muesli, we were away a little later than expected. We intended to leave before G&Y and meet for mornos somewhere but we slept in because we had the aircon on all night (it was compulsory) and had a really good night's sleep. We stopped for mornos at Hay beside the Murrumbidgee River, and was home-made. Lunch was at Balranald, ...

Temp: 22-39; 66- 24% humidity Distance: 424km; total: 1 612km Start time: 8:50am, arrival: 5pm We had a leisurely breakfast and pack-up this morning ready for a departure of between 8:30 and 9am. We headed for Parkes to visit the Parkes Observatory, aka "The Dish"; a radio telescope observatory. It was one of several radio antennas used to receive live, televised images of the Apollo 11 moon landing on 20 July 1969. We arrived about 10am but instead of heading st...

18-35 degC; 77-33% humidity Biked: 31km; total: 59.5km After breakfast we left for the zoo on the bikes. It should have only taken us 15 minutes but due to a directional error, it took us 25, but we did get there! We had purchased our tickets on line to save 10% so didn't have to queue and just presented the phone at the gate and they scanned the barcode and in we went. We spent about 5 hours at the zoo and saw all the usual suspects (elephant, rhino, lion, monke...

Distance: 346km; total: 1188km Start time: 9am; arrival time: Another sleep in - 6:45am!! Just as we were about to pull out, Gunther found a problem with his electronic braking system. There is always something, isn't there? Our indicator yesterday, Fischer's brakes today. We eventually got away at 9:05am and headed for Gunnedah. The road was a little lumpy in places, but too bad overall. We arrived at Pensioners Hill Reserve at 10:20am, just in time for mornos. ...

Biked: 28.5km Due to the one hour time change, our body clocks have not yet adjusted, so we had a little sleep in until 6:30am (it was 5:30 in QLD though). We weren't in any hurry to get up as we only needed to leave at 8:30am as nothing we wanted to visit opened before 9am. Our first stop was at the Powerhouse Motorcycle Museum for the boys to check out some toys. The girls went in as well just to have a look. The man manning the museum like a bit of a chat and ...