On the road by 8:00am heading for Lightning Ridge via Narrabri and Walgett, a distance of 247 km. It was so dry in most places, especially west of Narrabri. There was an interesting exhibition on at Narrabri on the history of the Sea Container which was housed in several containers. It is amazingly flat out here and very dry. No water in some of the rivers that we crossed. Arrived at Lightning Ridge about 4:00pm, got set up, (back to front as we had all our servi...

Today was my birthday so I was well looked after by Lisa with her organising breakfast, a birthday cake and lunch as well as video calls from our offspring. Today we went bushwalking in the Warrumbungle National Park to Fan’s Horizon, a pleasant 2 hour walk (with a 1000 steps) Had our lunch at the lookout with a magnificent view. We could also see the optical telescope at Mt Siding Spring as well as many other smaller telescopes. There were even some along the ...

As we unhitched yesterday I noticed that our red Anderson plug that connects caravan to car had broken and so our first task for the day was to try and source another, a task made more difficult by the pea soup fog engulfing Dubbo! We tried at Jaycar yesterday but they only had the grey plugs. My first mistake was driving to Dubbo RV Centre, a place that sounded promising for the item required. Google led us to the spot where it should have been however, it didn...

Today was raining when we woke so getting going took a little longer. On the road by 9:30 which is later than we like but todays drive to Dubbo was only about 120km so no great hurry. On arrival we went to the Western Plains Zoo and had a great afternoon admiring Rhino’s and Giraffe etc. The zoo was large and the animals appeared to have plenty of space which is lovely. Found a nice free camp near the airport where we set up for the night. Lisa stoked up the fi...

Woke to the sound of cockatoos squawking which was lovely. (ask me in nine weeks if I still feel the same way!) Drove to Parkes, stopping at West Wyalong for a cuppa. There was a full size DC-3 in the local park which I enjoyed more than the usual steam train! Checked in to the Spicer Caravan Park and the staff directed us to our site, even giving us hand signals to line us up correctly. After unhitching we went to the CSIRO Radio Telescope which featured in th...