This morning we checked out of Dugout 3 at the White Cliffs Underground Motel and pointed the nose of the MU-X southwards on the Opal Miners Way to Wilcannia. We are really homeward bound now! Travelling on Opal Miners Way, which is a sealed road, was a welcome relief from the dirt road driving that we have been doing over the last couple of days! Even though the road is sealed, it’s still a ‘long paddock’ so, in addition to watching for kangaroos and emus, we had to be on the lookout for black cattle. And … we saw all three! Three kangaroos jumped across the road, a black cow/steer (?) stared us down from three quarters of the way across the road as much as to say ‘I’ll finish crossing in my own time’ and,
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