Dear Family and Friends
Today has been a real winter's day here as it has been both wet and cold. Even worse at Orange where Mum and Dad live as we picked up their local news tonight and they have had a very heavy fall of snow. We did venture out to go to the Tourist Information Centre where we picked up a local map and were given direction to a viewing platform where you can see right down into the open cut mine. We went to have a look but it was very wet and cold and we quickly ran up to the platform, we took a quick look and our reaction was wow! We ran back to the car and decided it was worth coming back when it wasn't so wet. We didn't have the camera with us so we will go back and take some photos. It was quite amazing.
At the tourist centre they have a heritage museum and it is said to be one of the best museums in the state and they say to give yourself and hour to an hour and a half to see all the exhibits.
We will also go back to have a look through it.
We have been told to be really careful around Cobar and Bourke as they have the same sort of problems as Wilcannia. We have found Cobar to be a lovely town and we would come again another day. Yet again this afternoon caravans came in aplenty, they line up out the front waiting to come in and they won't take bookings so it is first in best dressed though it a large park with lovely big sites.
Ken was speaking to someone who had spent the night at the caravan park just out of Bourke and he had heard that in the park in town windows were broken in cars and boots had been jemmied open so with that knowledge we will stop only for mail and keep on our way.
Ken has to fix one of our water outlets tomorrow as the shower outlet was shattered when we drove those hundred klms on the dirt. I also got him to clean windows in and out for me this afternoon as the van is very dusty we would wash the whole thing but your not allowed to wash your vans here.
No pictures yet but more will follow tomorrow
Love to one and all.
Ken and Lyn.
Today has been a real winter's day here as it has been both wet and cold. Even worse at Orange where Mum and Dad live as we picked up their local news tonight and they have had a very heavy fall of snow. We did venture out to go to the Tourist Information Centre where we picked up a local map and were given direction to a viewing platform where you can see right down into the open cut mine. We went to have a look but it was very wet and cold and we quickly ran up to the platform, we took a quick look and our reaction was wow! We ran back to the car and decided it was worth coming back when it wasn't so wet. We didn't have the camera with us so we will go back and take some photos. It was quite amazing.
At the tourist centre they have a heritage museum and it is said to be one of the best museums in the state and they say to give yourself and hour to an hour and a half to see all the exhibits.
We will also go back to have a look through it.
We have been told to be really careful around Cobar and Bourke as they have the same sort of problems as Wilcannia. We have found Cobar to be a lovely town and we would come again another day. Yet again this afternoon caravans came in aplenty, they line up out the front waiting to come in and they won't take bookings so it is first in best dressed though it a large park with lovely big sites.
Ken was speaking to someone who had spent the night at the caravan park just out of Bourke and he had heard that in the park in town windows were broken in cars and boots had been jemmied open so with that knowledge we will stop only for mail and keep on our way.
Ken has to fix one of our water outlets tomorrow as the shower outlet was shattered when we drove those hundred klms on the dirt. I also got him to clean windows in and out for me this afternoon as the van is very dusty we would wash the whole thing but your not allowed to wash your vans here.
No pictures yet but more will follow tomorrow
Love to one and all.
Ken and Lyn.
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