We arose at 7.15am as our next drive was about 460k's to Cobar leaving the site at approx 8.47am. Nothing spectacular on the drive across except that there far fewer goats to be seen until a few just prior to Cobar. The lady at Emmdale, where we picked up 40 litres of fuel whilst we had lunch, told us that the graziers were now making more money out of goats than sheep, and considered that maybe the numbers were down because of that. They ship them out live! S...

This year's trip was a start & stop affair until we could both get some work completed around our homes and attend to other family matters. Then we could not decide which way to go, as we wanted to go to Perth to see Neil and Susan, but we also wanted to go North out of the cold southern temperatures. Finally, what made our mind up to go north, was the fact that after 38 outbreaks of Fruit Fly around the area, we could not take any fruit into SA! And, a...