Day 41 More painting but seeing as it was my birthday we were told to 'knock off early" and we duly obliged. We took a cool bag of beers out to a gorge on the property which was just beautiful in the afternoon sun. On the way in Michael slipped into a pool of water and got wet feet in the gorge, much to my amusement... the photo is trying to dry his socks, shoes and trouser legs that zipped off. Also went and had a look at the airstrip and old disused woodshe...

Day 40 A few days ago met a guy at the Royal Flying Doctors Service tour who had just come back from a week on an outback station and we thought we would give that a go too. So we called them up and they were heading away to pick up rams but it was arranged that we would start today. So, in exchange for a few hours working around the station, we get bed, board and beers and more importantly to us, the experience of an outback station. We are tasked with repai...

Day 39 Spent the day at Menindee, a town on the Darling river with picturesque lakes around it. As there was rain last night, most of the road into and around the National Park were flooded as they are unsealed. So we contented ourselves with reading the Sunday papers beside the Darling and then going to have a look at the Weir at Menindee lake. Overnight: Lake View Caravan Park, Broken Hill

Day 38 Checked out some of the sights in Broken Hill including The Big Picture Gallery which among other paintings houses a huge canvas which was a lot more impressive than we were expecting. In the afternoon drove out to see the Living Desert Sculpture Park which is a series of 12 huge sculptures on top of a hill. We opted for the 1km uphill walk rather than driving to the top. Once there it is rather strange and quirky but impressive. The sky was getting d...

Day 37 We were seated in the classroom of School of the Air by 8:15am This was originally setup making use of the pedal radio, broadcasting lessons to the kids in remote outback stations. Later, car batteries were used as power supplies and later still the interactive lessons were converted to be given over the Internet. Today was the last day of term and they were having their Easter assembly. It was very cute "this is Lucy from Pooncarie, over" and Ben from...