Nyngan to Forbes

Friday 27th September.
Got to Nyngan early and had a relaxing afternoon. Attached to the caravan park is an animal park with camels, donkeys, goats, ducks, kangaroos which you can feed scraps to. So we had a walk up and fed some bread to them. The camels went crazy, like they had never been fed.

Greedy Camels

Ray patting the camels with their big soft velvet lips

The next day we packed up and headed to Trangie. Ray's nephew is a policeman based at Trangie and works at Narromine also. We parked up out the back of the police station for the night. Maxwell lives 2 doors up so we made tea for him and when he finished work we watched the football. A relaxing night.

Guess who they put in the lock up

On Sunday Maxwell came in early for coffee before he went to work and we got away from Trangie about 8am and headed to Condobolin.

After setting up camp at the River View Caravan park we went to get some lunch and then headed out to Utes in the Paddock. These are old Holden utes which have been painted by Australian artists as a tribute to life in the outback.

Golden West Medley

Clancy stopping the overflow

Drizakubra

Emuute

Epitaph to fossil Fuel

The Stockman

Ute of Arms

We decided to stay in Condobolin for an extra night as the area around the caravan park is so nice. it is right on the banks of the Lachlan River directly above the weir. There are huge gum trees everywhere and a heap of different birds. A very peaceful place. It is an old park and needs a bit of TLC but the amenities are clean and that is a big plus.

looking toward Condobolin Weir

Our camp at the caravan park at Condobolin

The Lachlan River at Condobolin

Volume of water flowing over the weir at Condobolin

We got away from Condobolin about 8.30am. We only had 100km to get to Forbes so we were there in time to set up and go and have morning tea with Freda and Bob (Ray's cousin and his wife). It is Bob's 69th birthday today so we said we would go out to dinner so we did. we enjoyed a nice meal at The Forbes Inn. We had a storm this afternoon. It is the first major rain we have had in the day time since we left home.

 

On Wednesday morning Ray decided to take a drive to look for his Uncle Franks old farm. Ray, his parents and brothers and sisters used to go out to Franks farm every Xmas holidays when they were young. Frank sold up in the mid 70's and the family moved into Forbes. ray has great memories of those times so off we went to find it. We drove out about 15km from Forbes to where he thought it was but to no avail. We finally rang Freda and she told us which lane to drive down and so we found "Robeengrae". We spoke to the children and some friends of the people who own it now and Ray had a good look around outside. He showed me some of the places where they used to swim and generally play around. Very interesting. It would have been a lovely place.

 

We then came back to town and met Bob and Freda for lunch, once more at The Forbes Inn. One of young Scott's work friends at The House With No Steps had a birthday so we went to celebrate too. We had a great time with them.

 

After this Bob took us for a drive out to Bedgerebong, where Bob, Freda and Scott are going on Tuesday to a festival, where they will play and read poetry. A lovely spot.

 

Then back to the park and get ready to go home tomorrow.

Friendly magpie in caravan park

 

That is all the Blog for now. Hope you have enjoyed it. The next one will probably be next year when we are heading back to The Kimberley and then back across the Savannah Way to Cairns and then down the coast to home.

Bye for now.