THE THIRD DAY – SUNDAY 11 JULY
As it turned out the wayside stop was not a good place to stop as nearly every big rig must have stopped for short breaks and left again. And you could hear all the trucks going past on the road all night and I mean ALL night. We had gone to bed early last night so we would get up early this morning to get going by 8.20 am. We saw a statue of Ben Hall in Forbes and saw the The Dish in the distance. ( we had seen it up close the last time we came through!) the weather was very overcast and the occasional spots of rain. The terrain became more undulating as we continued north. When we got to Peak Hill we dropped into the info centre where there was an old lady there whom we asked if she knew where the flora and fauna park is. She proceeded to explain to us about a big place where she used to go with her dad when she was little. She kept talking about all sorts of stuff until we had finished buying a couple of things and said goodbye. I had read about this flora and fauna park in a book so we decided to go look for it ourselves. We found it in a few minutes and it was literary a hop skip and jump from the info centre. I couldn’t understand why the lady had no idea about this park. We went for a walk and it was quite nice – needed quite a bit of work but it had a lot of potential. We had morning tea and then kept going. Filled up petrol in Gilgandra then the unthinkable happened. As we were going up a hill the van got slower and slower and I asked Graeme is something wrong. Then we stopped on the side of the road. I felt kind of sick thinking what was wrong and prayed that what ever it is Graeme could fix it. Graeme checked things and discovered it was the float in the carby that had stuck up which wouldn’t let the fuel through. So he fixed it and off we went again. Thank you God that Graeme is a mechanic – anyone else would have been stuck. We saw a fox run across the road on our way to the Warrenbungle National Park where we are going to stay the night. We also came across some cattle crossing the road and some emus in the paddock and some wallabies along the way. We finally got to the camp site chose a powered site in the older section where you can have a fire and settled in for the night. Graeme went a found some wood for the fire and ended up covered in some sort of seeds from a weed. We had to pull them out one by one – very funny. Then Graeme attempted to make a fire which didn’t really work – having wet wood and no paper. Then the little girl next door – I think her name is Emma – came over and asked us if we wanted some fire sticks from their lovely big fire to start our one. How sweet. So we got our fire going with the help of next door. I think they felt sorry for us. We had a bbq tea. We played two games of battle ship then Graeme went to bed and I down loaded my photos and began writing about the first three days of our trip. It really helps when we have ‘real’ electricity. Hee hee. We played a game of golf on the computer which was fun.