NSW Outback

Sunday, with great weather on our side, we packed up from the Grenfell old railway station campsite, and drove to the Weddin Mountain National Park, to do some hiking. The drive down was just beautiful, with the golden canola, green rolling hills, and the bluest sky you can imagine. We Continue Reading

Monday 31 August – (Balranald) HaySaid goodbye to Gol Gol – below just a lovely picture of the black swans who came to say hi at our caravan park which is on the Murray River. We then followed the Murray River a little further, before veering off in the eastern Continue Reading

Wentworth/Gol GolThursdayLeft Broken Hill reasonably early, as we would be travelling for around 3.5 hours to the next stop, Wentworth, where we wanted to spend the afternoon and most of the next day. Wentworth is a lovely little town that used to be quite busy due to its strategic location Continue Reading

Broken Hill/Menindee/Broken Hill FridayOff to Menindee which is about 100km south and on the edge of Kinchega National Park with many lakes.  We came across a few more road trains along the way. One of the reasons we installed our 2 way radio is so we can communicate with them Continue Reading

Tuesday 18-Thursday 20 August – Broken Hill More to explore in Broken Hill…. A beautiful day, and Arno spent a few hours doing 9 holes of golf. After lunch we headed off to the Royal Flying Doctors Services (RFDS), which have a base in Broken Hill.  By coincidence, Endemolshine is Continue Reading

Thursday August 13 – Cobar After spending the night at a caravan park (needing the safety net of power for the fridge), we moved on this morning after everything worked fine on gas overnight. We set the van up at a free camp just outside town. This is a property Continue Reading

Monday August 10Lightning Ridge – Brewarrina A 3-hour trip or so today, interspersed with UHF chat of 4×4 nomad convoys, we arrived at the most wonderful free camp. Out of town, smack on the Barwon River, free firewood provided by our local firey ‘Burra’ who happened to come around, great Continue Reading

Friday August 7Narrabri-Lightning RidgeOn our way from Narrabri to Lightning Ridge, we stopped again (did this on a previous trip) at the CSIRO Paul Wild Observatory to take a few pictures. It was raining, but the Telescope Compact Array was working, and moving around….! Got a lot of rain, but Continue Reading

On the road again! With the caravan back from the dealer we were eager to get going, so are continuing our NSW outback trip where we left off when we had to cut it short in March. The map below shows our trip so far (we got as far as Continue Reading