Linda & Pete's Travels 2023 - Flinders Ranges & Lake Eyre

On Tuesday the 2nd May, after finishing our walk around town we left Mendooran. We weren’t in a hurry because we were going to stay at Denman that night which was only a 195km. We stopped for a coffee in Dunedoo. There is some silo art there right in town depicting the champion horse, Winx. On the other side of the silo there is more which I am sorry I did not photograph. The terrain on this drive is beautiful, especially between Dunedoo and Denman. We pulled into the RV campground at the Royal Hotel in Denman. They have done a great job on this campground. There is a unisex demountable building with three showers and two toilets and washing machines. There are designated RV sites with grassed areas and room at the back for camper trailers. The pub serves great food and we thoroughly enjoyed dinner and drinks in the pub that night. It has become a bit of a tradition for Linda and I to have a nice meal out on the last night as a celebration of the trip. Denman is a lovely t...

We left Cobar on Monday the 1st May and headed to Nyngan. We weren’t planning on staying there but we wanted to stop and check out the two museums there. As we were heading east from Cobar it was apparent, as we have seen previously that the goat population does not exist on that side of Cobar, certainly not near the road. I don’t know why that is. Once at Nyngan we firstly went to the Mid State Shearing Shed. This museum is right beside the railway line on the Highway running through town and cleverly placed is a great RV parking area beside it. There are also facilities that caravanners need. The Shearer’s Museum at Hay is huge by comparison but this one had some good things as well. We then went across the railway line to the Nyngan Museum and had a good look there. We enjoyed both museums. In the main street is a big RAAF helicopter. Whilst we did not go and take a look at it this time I could not talk about Nyngan without showing a photo of the Big Bogan. We took this ph...

On Saturday the 29th April we left Broken Hill for Cobar. We had been to Broken Hill a few times before so we did not need to do any sightseeing. The trip was 450km so it was our biggest days drive on this trip. There is an alternative to pushing right through to Cobar and that is to stay at Wilcannia in a van park that is about 3km out of town which would be OK. But we wanted to push on through to give us an extra day in Cobar. I have never had a look at the mine or anything else there so that was on the agenda. It is amazing how many wild goats there are by the road between Broken Hill and Cobar. The must be millions. Fortunately they are not like sheep and they mostly do not go onto the road as you are approaching. They appear to have a degree more intelligence to know it wouldn’t be wise to run out in front of a vehicle. Otherwise you would have to crawl along at and very slow speed. Having said that I saw about a dozen dead all in one spot at the side of this road once. The van pa...