After being delayed and back tracking to Eulo, we pulled out the map again and decided the easiest and simplest way home was on the blacktop, east to Cunamulla and then south to Bourke, before pushing on to a free camp at Warren.
Being a long day of just over 600 kilometres, we hit the road early and found it an easy days run on wide straight highways.
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| We tried a self portrait... whilst the boys made cubby houses in the back! |
We stopped for lunch at a great future camp north of Bourke at Mays Bend. This former caravan park on a bend in the Darling River was a beautiful spot for a rest and a leg stretch. We marked it as a great spot to consider coming back to. The access track could be a little difficult after some rain, but we found the camping area wide and grassy with plenty of shady camp sites.
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| Mays Bend - Bourke |
And so we continued south, through Narromine and on the Warren Weir, where we were confronted with a locked gate, barring our acesss to a promising camp. Despite our wearieness we returned to the main highway and pulled into Trangie Caravan Park a short time later.
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| Warren Weir - Access blocked! Not happy Jan! |
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| Cotton Gin near Warren |
We left Trangie early the following morning after a damp pack up - and headed to 'The Dish', the
CSIRO Radio Telescope at Parkes for morning tea. We had a great morning doing the kid's adventure quiz at the visitors centre. It has come along way since I first came here as a kid for an open day, when we got to tramp through the actual control room. The visitors centre is excellent and we thoroughly enjoyed our time here.
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| The Dish |
We were thinking of doing one last camp at Nangar National Park near Eugowra, before heading home. The persistent rain we were now experienceing would have made any camp uncomfortable at the best - so we decided to continue on for home. We restocked at Yass, before arriving home mid afternoon on the Friday, exactly 4551 kilometres after departing.
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| How green is that grass, near Canowindra |
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| Home... filthy dirty... but now officially blooded! |
And of course then came the day or so of washing, cleaning and general tidying up that comes after the best part of two weeks on the road. The best bit was sitting down with the tykes and going through where we had been. It was simply a great adventre!
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| Geography Lesson - This is where we went! |
And so what did we learn?
We worked out that we were really happy with the layout of our camping arrangement. With some minor tweaking, we will be ready for our adventure at the end of the year. The main thing we won't take again were the legs we have to jack off the canopy. We have decided the 100 kg or so that these weigh (collectively) could be best used for other things.
What did we break?
The only casualty for the trip was the 1000 Watt Inverter in the camper trailer.
On return I also noticed a small leak in our camper's water tank - which has been removed and repaired.
Statistics:
Distance travelled: 4551 kilometres
Most expensive fuel: $2.097 / Litre at Innamincka
Average Fuel Consumption: 14.4 Litres/100 kilometres
Total Fuel Cost: $1018.43
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