EN ROUTE TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA

The blog is back. It has been inactive since Easter 2012 when we were in Cambodia for the Moro wedding. It was going to be reactivated for Canada/Alaska last August but tragically, we lost Nicholas and that trip didn’t happen.

We are celebrating my birthday very quietly at Willie’s Retreat in the Macquarie Marshes south east of Bourke, a quaint camp ground on a former sheep station which is now the camping area from which one can access the nature reserve protecting the wetlands. The main group here are the Hunter Valley Bird Watching Club. We now know that the area is well known for its bird life.

Yesterday was a very productive driving day, getting as much distance behind us as we could, most of it through familiar country. After tomorrow night which we plan to spend at Menindee Lakes, we will be in territory we have never visited before. After Menindee, our plan is to go via Broken Hill to the southern Flinders ranges for a few nights, then on to the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, before heading west across the Nullabor.

The locals are very friendly.

The mighty Macquarie River. Obviously it has to start somewhere.

Our next appointment is late May on the Gold Coast.