Day 50 Pretty lazy morning in Dubbo and the afternoon was spent going around the rest of the zoo. An early dinner before heading to the observatory to check out the night sky. The observatory was pretty good, the power of the telescopes was impressive. Got to see a few stars and galaxy's as well as the rings of Saturn and the moon. Overnight: Dubbo Parklands Big4

Day 49 Overhead someone saying there was a storm on the way so, as the tent is not completely water proof, after breakfast we covered it with a tarp. Pottered around Dubbo CBD in the morning and did some organising including putting the car online to be sold and caught up on some long overdue entries here. Afternoon spent checking out some of the animals in the Western Plains zoo. In general, we are not particularly big zoo fans but so many people had raved a...

Day 48 Our last major day of driving from Miles in Southern Queensland to Dubbo in New South Wales. We waved Sean, Roma and Ariana off before we departed Miles as they headed off on the 2.5 hour journey to Toowoomba to buy the girls a motorbike. Shortly after we left having spent a relaxing few days in good company and eating far too much! On the way down saw that the town of Roma, just 140km west of Miles was bracing itself for flash flooding and roads into ...