We didn’t even get out of bed until after 7.30am today. 10 hours sleep we must be on holidays.
It’s funny how often you hear people saying three’s a crowd. We have three girls on this trip aged 9, 10 and 12 and they have proven that three isn’t always a crowd. They have entertained themselves happily, making up games and running around whenever we stopped for a break. So far they have not done much school work but their imaginations have been working overtime creating scenarios for playing.
280kms of our journey today was along the Silver City Highway between Mildura and Broken Hill. We really noticed the red dirt along here. Just a taste of what is to come the closer we get to Central Australia. The extreme flatness of the landscape here was amazing. Living in Canberra we are surrounded by mountains, but out here its flat as far as the eye can see. Its times like this tat sense of how vast this country is becomes so much stronger.
The fruit fly exclusion zone well and truely surrounds us so we were able to buy some locally grown fruit and veggies to eat while stil in this area. We stopped at a house in Wentworth that had fresh citrus, tomatoes, eggs and other foods. Fresh veggies and omelette for tea – yum!
We arrived in Broken Hill in the early afternoon and set up camp, and despite the cold we managed to sit out and sip a very nice red wine to toast our journey.
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