2014 The 6th year

Free camps warm pleasure

This is the reason we left Victoria

We are once again in Broome after much debate it was decided we would head for Broome and the warmer weather and have been here now for Four weeks at Cable Beach caravan park.

We left the cold behind us just after Mothers day, did our usual and stopped of in Woodonga at Shirls for a few days washed the Car and Caravan etc.

Finally headed of and pointed the car towards Bourke in NSW , but before than

Lockhart NSW

Lochart NSW our first stop and look around

This park had lots of these displays made out of steel and sheet metal 

Cobar NSW

Cobar for leg stretch at the old furnace

Bourke NSW

the name speaks for it self

We did a four part tour in Bourke

1/ Bourke one man show horses and bulls great to see

 

 Bullocks at work smile at it

2/ Cotton and more Cotton

A great delivery of unwashed unsorted Cotton

3/ Oranges for anyone

4/ paddle steamer ride up the Darling

 Lightning Ridge NSW

It is here we met up with Tom and Ann and did some sightseeing

Black Opal Country

Stanley Big bird entirely made out of VW

40 Km out of Lighning Ridge stands The Club in the Scrub only dirt roads to get to.

A miner building their house we think

Carvings under ground in a old mine

Good to see Essendon is represented under ground

Together we travelleled to Rubyvale to do some fossicking and stayed at a few Free camps

Surat Free camp

Virgin rock by day, at night it is lit up beautiful

Virgin Rock Free Camp

Tom & Ans Van and ours Virgin Rock Free Camp

Had a little luck, hard work though digging and then sifting and washing, much easier if we bought a few buckets at one of the gem places that is a lot of fun and not so hard on the bod.  

Pick and Shovel

Washing dirt for opals, see the concentration

Tom & Ann are at it also

after 4 days we said a sad farewell to our friends, We mainly stayed in free Camps from hereon

Four Mile Free Camp

Visitors a our overnight stop

Lake Carelligo Free Camp our view

Victoria River Road house Camp ground

Victoria river at sunset

Bridge over Victoria Rver which gets flooded over regularly

Lake Argyla sunset cruise this cruise gave us Sundown and Moonrise quiet spectacular

Lake Argyle's vastness of water

 

Sauvignon Blanc on board

Sauvignon Blanc in lake Argyle

Fresh water Crocodile lake Argyle

Sunset over Lake Argyle

Moon rises over Lake Argyle

On the road to Broome,

Numpang Cliffs Freecamp before Broome

 to finally arriving in Broome on the 17th June,

I know Camels again but it is the trend here

Cable Beach from left to right, Marilyn, Ian, Allan, Pat Bianka & Sig

Sunset at cable Beach

Fire behind Cable Beach

A visit to Crabb Creek at low tide and we saw these Skips or mud fish and there where thousands of them

Cable Beach Carpark or so it seems for most of the day light hours

Can never go past a good Sunset

we where unable  to get our site 79 which we had last year so we are on 50 instead not as nice as last year but a lot of shade.

Will be here till end July when we move of to house sit in CoffsHarbour for six weeks.for our niece.

The weather has been ordinary most of the time it has been around the 28-30 degrees water temp has been around the 21 so not much swimming so far, but then when you look at Victoria where it is cold and windy with rain most of the time.

We have now  also had rain and 17 degree .

Our time here is taken up with reading going into town, driving on  the beach, visiting friends as Ian and Merilyn are here also we had Pat and Allan here for a week which was nice and seeing the friends we made last year.

Anyway we are enjoying the warm weather.

Bianka & Sig

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Our site resident Frog Mouth Owls here during the day gone at night