Well it did stop raining eventually,but it turned out to be an interesting day.Its amazing what you find when you are on the net,we never dreamed that when we left coffs it would be in a differant caravan.We only went to Jayco's to see about a service but we found our new van with all the things we wanted,so Im now sitting on my new club lounge looking at the Murray river meandering by.It was an exhausting day moving everything,even a glass of wine couldnt revive us.Its been a hectic week,our first day after changing was a real test on Jeffrey's driving skills ,one of my famous short cuts!!We had spent the night at Port Macquarie and we were heading to Tamworth,the counrty music capital of Australia,(at least not both types of music country and western!!)The road wound up and up over the mountains,can anyone tell me when you see the sign Danger falling rocks,what are you supposed to do!!The road into Tamworth is 6ks of steep descent,from 1550m straight down,I told you I really tested jeff's driving skills!We had a nice surprise of catching up with a friend and spending the night in a house,a very boozy night for some of us!The highlight was be taken by Jeffs friend Phil to an aborignal site to see the cave paintings,not known by many.Only a few goats and roos,such a spiritual place,I wonder what had taken place over the years.There are some lovely country towns in NSW,Gunnedah has the highest population of Koalas in the world and are often seen in the main street we werent so lucky unfortuantly.Parkes was also a surprise,if you remember themovie "The Dish" it was bases on Parkes Dish.It will be 50 years old next year and played a huge part in beaming the moon landing to the world,Houston was so impressed with the quality they switched transmission to Parkes.It also played an important part in bringing back Apollo 13,its surprising what you come across in the country!But that was it,nothing more, no more towns just nothing!
Explorer John Oxley wrote that the area of country on the way to Hay is so bad no man would want to ever go that way again!How right he was,no trees,flat nothing,though the swarm of Locust did make things a bit more interesting especially the one that hung on the cb aerial for ages before spinning of into oblivion!We are now in Mildura,a town with many old buildings and the magnificent Murray river flowing through it.We have never seen so many houseboats,ther are 11 differant companies here,and are nothing like Mandurah boats,imagine a floating luxury apartment!Our stay in Victoria is brief back to South Australia tomorrow,so I am making a bucket full of potato salad to use up some spuds,so I can take them across the border.It seems strange to think we will be back in W.A. in just over a week.My new bigger freezer is so stocked up we certainly will not starve on the Nullaboor,potato salad anyone?
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