Hay to Charleville

With a few Km's to get through, we headed to Shear Australia nice and early. The timing of our visit was ironic and a little bitter sweet. We learned that our shearing contractor, who was very well known in Hay and in he wider shearing community had passed away just as we were departing. The kids loved the interactive stuff and seeing the big outstretched fleece hanging from he ceiling. 

Megan loved finding the truck load of cotton bales after her tour of a cotton farm in Goondiwindi last year, they have had so much rain lately, they can't get the trucks into the cotton gin.

Kids were travelling well and we made it to the Lachlan River rest area for lunch just after midday.

Roads were good with light traffic and not too much road kill. There was a lot of water lying around so you couldn't just pull off anywhere, this made using the rest stops even more difficult as we encountered other Caravanners  who were setting up for a two  night stay and had positioned themselves so that no one else could even get in to stop and turn around. The other thing we noticed that surprised us, other than the huge number of goats, was the amount of rubbish on the side of road, it was just littered with beer, coke and water bottles. 

We eventually made it to Cobar, checked out the Peak Gold Mine and New Gold, that was one epic hole in the ground.

Waited around for a little while in the hopes we might see a truck going in or out but was getting a little cool and windy. The lady at the local tourist info was super helpful with stuff to see and do. Headed to the caravan park then to the local for a Parma. Good caravan park and pubgrub was super.  Was pleasantly surprised by how well priced the local IGA supermarket was so stocked up on heaps of fruit for the kids in the hope of getting all the way to Charleville in the day. Morning tea in Bourke(super busy little cafe in the wharf precinct but missus says the coffee was well worth the wait, she is still miffed that the coffee machine stayed home)

Cunnamulla for lunch and FINALLY changed into shorts and tshirts. Peter had a new lease on life and ran like a loon for the half hour we were at the park. 

Made it all the way from there to Charleville without a stop.

Pretty impressed that we have done 1500+ km since late Thursday, the kids have only watched three movies and we haven't had any major tantrums.