Broken Hill to White Cliffs
Leaving Broken Hill for points north. for all intent and purposes it was to Tibooburre (300km +) over both sealed and dirt roads.Welllllll the sealed part was a walk in the park but when we get to the dirt life gets a bit rough. Its either corrugations or bull dust and knowing that I had 250km to go and realizing that I would be returning on the same road....... It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that it is time to turn around especially when you realize that your max speed is 20-30km per hour.
Its back down to Broken Hill and points east. Pretty much a straight run into Wilcannia. In Wilcannia we find the buildings are either bordered up or have iron bars across the windows. Not a sort of a place to spend the night so its up to White Cliffs, another hot spot for opal. Into the caravan sight and being that you are the only person there you have the choice of spots along with the wide screen plasma TV. Wind is blowing a bit and thinking that I had the tent anchored with my foot, it was tent over the fence, through the pasture and the only saving grace for me was the tent getting caught up on a monument 200 meters away. Tent back to the caravan sight and a German couple pull in and I am talked to for the next 2 hours on how bad the economy is in Germany and how they are taxed to the max.
White Cliffs to Cobar
Flat front tyre from the thorns around the booming metropolis of White Cliffs. Pumped the tyre up and kept this up every 50km down to Wilcannia and into Cobar. Motorcycle shop had a tyre sealer that is still working as of this date but the goop has caused an unbalance with the tyre but it does work. Cobar had a great caravan site, top shelf bakery and goodies to eat with that extra 2 inches to your waist line.
Cobar to Carinia
Leaving Cobar on route 32 to Nyngan next through Nevertire with a turn to Warren. Warren is a neat little town that is worth spending a night but I needed to get north. It was a very long drive down a sealed road to Carinia and be blessed that you are not doing this during the wet as it is one lane. Just listening to stories of people getting stuck if they had to pull off the road was a very common story of sorts. Into Carinia and does life get any better then having a free stop sleeping in the ruby building. Free showers and toilets along with a massive influx of mosquito's at night. What I should have done was put the tent up inside the building and sleep the sleep of the blessed. And of course we had the local dog start barking at 0100 and continued until 0300hrs.
Next morning it was gravel and sealed road to Walgett, breakfast and a bit of the blarney with follow bikers. Leaving Walgett we head for Coonamble, Baradine, Coonabaraban and finally into Warrumbungle National Park. Me tent mates was a couple from Austria, couple from France, Germany and Aussie including yours truely the Yank. A bit like the United Nations with showers of bore water..........
The Grey Nomad
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