Had a sleep in today and we were on the road about 9.00am, mild overcast weather but no rain or wind, good for travelling.
Headed of up the Hume for a little while and then left onto the Olympic Highway, travelling through Culcairn, Wagga Wagga, Temora, West Wyalong and stopped for the night at Forbes.
We had morning tea at a little town called Uranquinty, had lunch and refuelled at West Wyalong. There is still a lot of water lying around after the recent floods, especially south of Forbes, lots of road damage.
We camped for the night at a free camp at the Lions
Park beside the Forbes lake, very nice and lots and lots of other travellers
camped here as well, we arrived at 3.00pm and there where dozens here then.
This is a beautiful spot and highly recommend it to anyone travelling this way.
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Sunday
15th April
On the road by 7.30am and the morning sun was lovely
except for it shining in our eyes but after a couple of hours it clouded over
and eventually we had a few heavy showers, still lots of flood waters laying
around and the roads are still terrible.
From Forbes we travelled on the Newell Highway going
through Parkes, where we stopped and had a look at the “Dish” then Peak Hill,
Dubbo, Gilgandra, onto the Castlereagh Hwy, through Gulargambone, Coonamble, and
Walgett and finally arrived at Lightning Ridge about 3.00pm.
We booked into the Opal Caravan park, this is a new Top
Tourist Park and is well laid out with large mostly drive through sites, all
are gravel except for a few grassed camping sites, the amenities are probably
the best we have seen, the showers are big in size and they have internal sliding
glass shower doors that keep the water out of the change area, the only park I
have seen like this.
Entry to Lightning Ridge
Note to anyone travelling through Seymour:
As you enter the town from the south there is a low bridge, it says 3.4metres clearance, I stopped short of it, hopped into the van and opened up my laptop to check our van height, it is 3 metres, no worries have 400mm to spare, we did fit but it sure looked close when we went under!
Hi to you both. You seem to be making really good time. We love Forbes and stay at the caravan park in Sam St that takes dogs. It is a small park but very friendly. Having said that, we know that many people take the opportunity to free camp at the Lions Park. We also stayed at the Opal Caravan Park at Lightning Ridge. Didn't get to use the showers there as we used our own....but have seen glass shower doors once - at Holbrook which is just over the NSW border heading north.
ReplyDeleteWe really enjoyed the John Murray art gallery and purchased a couple of his prints - one of a caravan bouncing along the rocky road called "Are We There Yet" and the other called "Shearers Quarters, Angledool Station". Do drop in and have a look - we love his art.
Kate & Pete