Travelling at 90km an hour

We are on the road again.  However this time it was at a reasonable hour.  I was a little confused this morning due to my QLD time clock – thankfully daylight savings ends soon.  Packing up was easy as Hamish hung out with his adopted Grandparents and even gave them a cuddle and a kiss goodbye.

Not a lot of traffic today - this is pretty much it.

 

The journey consisted of one narrow bridge crossing which we just happen to cross at the same time as another ute with a trailer (after hardly seeing any cars for the past 100km), a toilet stop in the home of the Cod (Collarenebri) and then to Walgett for morning tea.  I can’t say my memory of this town is great as I stumped my toe on a piece of metal sticking out from the ground and cut it open.  Lucky we have a first aid kit on us and a few wipes and Band-Aids later I was off and hobbling again.   Though a new lesson learnt – keep the first aid kit in the car as it is easier to get to.

 

Hamish making sure we are on the right road.

The country is quite green out here and a lot of water in the low lying areas.  Jason asked a local about it and she said it was all water from QLD.  Brewarrina was our lunch stop and now we are on the final leg of today to Bourke.  Probably best as Kayla is just a tad bit over it today but will hopefully be happy enough for these last 87 km.  Hopefully we will find some free internet in Bourke so I can upload these to the blog.  I find writing these blogs are helping me get through some of these long drives. 

 

Travelled all this way and apparently we weren't too far from Angledool.

We have decided to not do the Bourke to Broken Hill drive all in one day.  Instead we are going to break it into two as that will take the pressure off us to get going early but also the poor little ones won’t be stuck in the car again for another massive day.  We are staying in Bourke for two nights as it will make it easier for the Easter Bunny to find Hamish (ha ha). 

Basket is out with a carrot in it for the bunny.

 

Bourke is certainly different.  I find it quite sad how a lot of things are boarded right up and extremely high fences around a lot of the things like school, bowls club etc.  Even just going to the bottle’o they were gated in.  Though on a good note we did manage to stock up on some beer and wine (phew).  Anyway I seem to be having a lot of trouble loading up the photos so I think I am really going to have to limit them which is sad.

 Hope you all have a fantastic Easter.

Kayla doing what she does best!