Jetty Tour Day 2 - Warrumbungles to Cobar

360km trip to Cobar today.

We had the camping grounds at Warrumbungles to ourselves and a peaceful night as a result.

Nobody home now in the farmhouse
near Gulargumbone

Heading west out the lesser used entrance to the Bungles, we drove through Gulargumbone before eventually turning south west for Warren. Approaching Gulargumbone from the eastern side, the last of the dirt takes a quick left and then right. In between is the old farm house where Sue resided during her first teaching prac in 1978. She caught the school bus into and out of town each nervous day and spent many hours each night preparing lessons. The weekends were a bit wild, with the central school full of young teachers who worked hard and played harder and we’re trying to lead her astray.

Stopped in Warren for a morning tea chat with a couple of local formers - solicitor and GP at the Kookaburra Kiosk. A planned visit to the Tiger Bay Wetlands was canned owing to a lack of wet in the wetlands, so we settled for coffee instead.

In Nyngan we had lunch and a look through the railway museum. Its an interesting museum which gets its name for its location not its memorabilia, very little of which was about railways. Interesting collection and currently under curation which can only make it better.

We ducked the infamous Big Bogan, having seen it on a previous run through. Unfortunately, it has been placed on the northern side of the space it occupies, making it impossible to photograph because of the position of the sunlight, at any time of the day. All you get silhouette or shadow. We opted for a big thing photo with Sue of a real thing - an ex army helicopter.

The trip to Cobar had me constantly doing calculations, hoping I had estimated the fuel right. At Nyngan, I felt I had 70 kms to spare. When I filled at Cobar, we had 68. Once in Cobar, Sundowners was interrupted by ants determined to devour or perhaps just annoy be but the net result was the same and we proved our TV repairman correct. The advent of the 4G phone system has swamped the bandwidth our portable antenna operates in so the antenna went in the bin and there will be no telly belly bumpkin box for us on this trip.

Today's photos

Warrawong on the Darling tomorrow night but we are not expecting the same level of special experience. With water being scarce, the billabong where we camp will be next to non existent. Planning on two nights there but might push on to Broken Hill after one and have a rest day there.