The day finally came for us to head off up the highway on our big trip. Everything packed and we are ready.
Our first stop was Lake Tyrrell where we free camped, a first experience for all of us. We were right out in the middle of nowhere with just the birds, rabbits and the huge blue sky. We circled the wagons to make a cosy spot shielded from the wind. The boys gathered firewood and we had a raging fire deep into the night. We sat around with a few glasses of red, and enjoyed a lovely dinner cooked on the camp stove and experienced the most magnificent scarlet sunset. Just Magic.
Next morning we headed into Mildura, a very pretty well set out city. We booked into a caravan park right opposite the Centro Shopping Centre and had a good look around. Mildura has a lovely riverside walk where there is a lot of activity around the water, lots of houseboats and lots of local landmarks which we enjoyed and of course we had to stop into Stefano's Coffee Shop for a coffee.
Sunday we headed off for Broken Hill stopping off at Wentworth which is about 30ks down the road, there is a lovely park at the junction of the 2 rivers, the Darling and the Murray, a beautiful park good for a free camp if we are ever by this way again.
First stop in Broken Hill was the information centre where we picked up a map with all the places of interest, and of course the caravan park locations, but our priority tonight was the Living Desert Sculpture Park for the sunset.
As we pulled into our caravan park, a huge disaster was narowly avoided. We checked in and were driving down the hill to our spots, over a fairly large speed bump, when OOPS! Laurie's caravan 'popped' off the towball - Ouch! After driving over 300ks with the towball not locked on, how lucky was he forbit to happen where it did. Fortunately no harm done and after some speedy work on behalf of Laurie and Jeff it was back on again and we completed our check in, and headed off to the Living Desert Sculptures for the sunset and we were not disappointed, what a magical spiritual place.
