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With heavy hearts for our very old friend visited in Brisbane, and also for the worsening Covid situation with all those family tragedies around the world, we now decide to return to Dungog for repairs, a larger fuel tank, drop off a lot of stuff now know we don’t need and, last but not least,Continue reading “Back to Dungog for repairs, but…”

Camping by the Paroo River , just outside of Eulo is so good we have stay a few days to make it worthwhile. The river is graced with Pelicans, dark clothed blokes fish for yabbies and walking up-river in the remoteness makes you feel you’re the only person on earth. At night the fire –Continue reading “23JUL-01AUG -Eulo to…well not where we thought!”

We leave Cameron Corner to roam Queensland, still gobsmacked that there was no-one checking the border, and it’s off for Noccundra. The road is the worst yet, corrugations galore, multiple dips and breaks in the road, but it’s fascinating for its aridity – still in the Strezlecki Desert, named after the Polish explorer, Paweł EdmundContinue reading “25JUL20 Noccundra, Thargominda, the Paroo”

Milparinka is just off the road – in fact it isn’t there at all any more – just the pub and two houses for the caretakers. It was an early gold mining centre and just the stone remains of the buildings of quite a substantial town. At its height, Milparinka had a newspaper, police office,Continue reading “Gold Town to Cameron Corner junction of SA, Qld and NSW”

(Haven’t been able to enter this as no telephone, no internet – punishment for going bush, but catching up now) Sometimes in life you can be lucky. Thanks to brilliant chiropractor Anna back in Dubbo, we’re on our way again in just a couple of days – which were otherwise pleasantly spent, enjoying it moreContinue reading “Left the 21st Century for a bit – 21JUL20”

At first everything goes well. Driving through these western NSW plains is like passing through a movie set. Trees float on the horizon, grass grows between a long railway track as straight as the sandy red road ahead. Young green cotton fields are both sides, monstrous wheat silos compete with the newer cotton buildings. GidgeeContinue reading “Into Bogan Territory, then, uh-oh! 13JUL20”

Kooky, quaint, quirky, funky, outlandish, crazy, offbeat, peculiar, freakish, curious, strange, even quite odd, or just nutty. Yes, we’re at Lighning Ridge. All the tiny mines and mining camps are here, just like they were in the ‘old days’ (meaning 1987, last time I was here), except for the arrival of non-miners. Yes, those whoContinue reading “01JUL20 -Lightening up the Ridge”

From Barkala Farm, we go to find the place where Ted lived until he was six, in Pilliga when his young father was rising in the Commercial Banking Co, (now the NAB) and he was given his first manager’s job – in Pilliga. Arriving in Pilliga, we go to the Post Office to ask whereContinue reading “26JUN20 -A visit after 74 years…’Come by Chance’… Pilliga to Walgett”