Rest Stop 60km odd after Cobar, NSW - 1 night

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Never knew a lot about Cobar, our main stop for the day. A quick stop at the local info office gave us the idea for a park for lunch, then Suz and I snuck off to do the next five nights of grocery shopping and to grab a coffee. I reckon we have spent more money on coffee than fuel this trip – first world problem.

After that we all headed off to check out a local Aboriginal site called Devil's Rock, an evil place. The whole experience was somewhat soured with the old mining shaft behind the rock formation (maybe around 10m x 10m) containing what looked to be a stolen Ford Falcon that had been burnt out...

The lookout at the current gold/copper mining operation was surprisingly impressive. A bloody deep open pit that has now started underground mining through a tunnel network. It has been a real interesting part of the trip, realising and learning about how much mining really goes on around the country.

That night we stayed at a rest stop and met two different fellas who were fellow travellers. John and his little dog Bundy, were nearing the end of a four year trip while Keith was on his way to his kids wedding. We had a good night, chatting away with a great fire after the good people in charge of the railway line we were next to had bulldozed a heap of trees that had dried out enough to burn well. As we were heading into our last few nights to be in a National Park, I loaded up the roof rack and cut up some extra wood to keep us going. I love the smell of a chainsaw in the evening!

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Photos

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Um, Cobar

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Decent hole in the ground