Happy New Year to you all!! We arrived in Lightning Ridge without incident after a one night stop over at a crappy Gilgandra caravan park. The road through to Walgett and on to Lightning Ridge is rather uninspiring. We have driven outback roads in the past and find the miles and miles of flat nothing-ness rather interesting, but this stretch of road is neither true outback or bush terrain, it is flat and straight for kilometres on end but has grassy plains and s...

Hi all, Yes, yes... I know we've been a bit quiet on the blog updates, but since leaving Barmah National Park we have spent a bit of time in Ophir which has absolutely no phone / internet coverage. So, here's what's been going on for the last couple of weeks.... We left Barmah early, aiming for Temora in NSW that night. We travelled along the Murray and crossed into NSW at Corowa, over the bridge on the Murray and out of Victoria. It was a bit of a non-event as...