Blogs from Cobar, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

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 ... read more

5:30 am - what is that we can hear? OMG it sounds like terrential rain, you have got to be kidding! We lay in bed for about an hour as the intensity of the rain fluctuated from pissing down to pouring to finally ending. You little ripper, lets get up, have a shower, do our walk and get cracking. Up we get, down a coffee & brekky - down comes the rain again, the sky is looking really angry and we decide to head to White Cliffs. As we head out of the N.P, all roads are still open so off we go. The road is very muddy, and a quick look back in the rear view mirror and the camper is swaying from side to side, this is going to be a long drive to ... read more

During our time at Allworth we thought about our plans and decided it was time to start heading home. Most of the state of NSW was flooded so we did not have many options as to which way we would travel and the only main roads which were, at this stage, flood free was going through Broken Hill though we were a little worried about some of the roads around Broken Hill. Tues 13 Mar - Our first night stop was Dunedoo, a lovely little town and a cheap Caravan Park ($20n). Checked out the pub with no beer but great food (so they said on the sign outside) and the other choice of toilet at the caravan park with the sign saying 'will this dunny doo'. At the caravan park met Tom and Rosemary and ... read more