We met some lovely people at our camp spot near Dubbo. Laurie and Helen from Queensland have been on the road quite a bit, criss-crossing the country. So they had some good traveling advice and some good stories to tell Kent around the campfire (I was trying to get Callen off to sleep, unsuccessfully!). But it was nice to actually talk to someone at our rest stop, rather than just nod and wave in the morning...the first time it has happened since we left home! After swapping email addresses we were off to the zoo in Dubbo. This was a novelty for us because we were able to drive around the zoo in our bus! It wasn't exactly what I was expecting (I had thought of the open plain zoo like at Werribee, but it is the Western Plains zoo named for the region) but we really enjoyed the full day there. Our favorite animals were the giraffes, cheetah, tigers, elephants and of course the different antelope & deer species. Kent was particularly excited at the Whapiti enclosure (see the photo!). Callen enjoyed the day too and we have discovered he is fascinated by birds!! Everytime he was getting whingy, we would say "look there's a bird/duck/cockatoo/swan" and he would stop and focus again! At the end of the day we went back into Dubbo to get fuel and some groceries before making our way to a rest stop at Tomingley on the road to Peak Hill.