Arrived at Coonabarabran around 10.30 and made the decision to take a northerly drive to Narrabri on the Newell Hwy and give Coonamble the flick, my thinking being it might be warmer in that direction. Narrabri's information centre and their staff are A1 and the town is a bustling hub. I parked in a side street just off the mail shopping area and on foot with Ruby in tow I sort out the fresh bread shop then had lunch in the caravan with a hot cuppa.
From here off the main road to Wee Waa I turned off the see the Australian Telescope Compact Array. There are 5 here in this photo and another one 5kls up the track.
I was lucky to see them move position while having another cuppa, Amazing!!!
Beautiful landscapes of greenery and dark brown soil seen on this mostly straight road from Narabri to Wee Waa. I passed 2 windmill and lots of cotton strewn on both sides of the road. Drove through Wee Waa and can't remember to much about it, possibly busy looking for the signs to Burren Junction. When I arrived I don't know why but I though the bore baths reserve was on the other side of the town so I passed the entrance even though I could see at lease 20 caravans spread out across a large area. Anyway I found there is not much in Burren Junction. On returning to the reserve and finding a spot I again practiced reversing, wondering what other campers thought as the space was wide enough for a road train ha ha ha
Girdle of Venus
The colours of the sky and a 360deg beautifully spectacular sunset. Later, as I had already looked up "Heavens Above" for the time of the International Space Station's fly pass and speaking to a group of campers we gathered at 6.25 to spot it. It was brighter than I expected, that would be possibly due to the darker sky's here so next Wednesday will be even better at -3.2.
The Inverter is beeping now, the laptop has been running for about 3 hours. Its warm in here with the gas heater running (not if I'm in bed though) I heed the warnings and wouldn't be so silly to run it during the night, not that I need to because its really toasty under the doona's. So the battery has made my decision to stay tomorrow and set up the solar for the boost it needs, then I'll make the final leg to Lightning Ridge. Now I'm thinking "how do you get your clobber off to enter the Bore Baths" to cold to make a dash from the caravan?
