Interesting things around Dubbo.

Bird of the Day:  Grey-crowned Babbler: a good bird and their interaction with Tammy was funny!  Contenders were Apostlebird and Zebra Finch.

Plant of the day:  River Red Gums beside the Macquarie River 

Scene of the Day:  Distant view of the Warrumbungles 

Art of the day:  Murals under the White Bridge

Typically Australian thing of the day: Pullover rest areas with dunny.  Not noted anywhere else in the world.

Maximum Temperature 16C  Minimum temperature: 0C

Distance traveled  with camper  0km without camper 140km

In fact there are quite a few interesting things around Dubbo, including an excellent walking track along the Macquarie River.  Part of the walk is named after Alex "Tracker" Riley, employed by the NSW constabulary to track down miscreants and missing creants.  He preferred the latter target group.  We started this near the White Bridge, which as can be seen is well supplied with graffitti.

Our start was also quite close to the Circus site.

The circus was indeed close to the central caravan park and probably would have been a bit noisy when the punters left.  (But the place we were at wasn't really quiet with many trucks using the Mitchell Highway.)  Here is another view of the White Bridge.

After our walk, which took us out to near the Zoo including passing a couple of paddocks of lion food on the hoof, we strolled down the main street.  Here is truth in advertising time.

It appears that the iconic animal at the Zoo is the Rhino, which appears in many forms around the town.  This straight version was outside the Visitors Centre..

A more flamboyant version was outside the regional Art Gallery which Frances visited and rated rather highly.

A farmers market was in action and as seems now to be the common situation dogs were welcome.  When I returned from acquiring a bolt to fix up our main light I quickly spotted one small dog.

The War Memorial in Dubbo was a rather impressive edifice.

Having done Dubbo by lunchtime we decided a visit to Gilgandra would occupy the afternoon rather well.  This was a pleasant drive of about 66 kilometres.  Beside the main Memorial, of a fairly common design they had a large wall to display the veterans names.

The town is known for the start of the "Cooee March" which recruited people for WW1.  This mural relates to that and the two silhouetted figures recur all over the town representing the marchers.

We headed out to the Flora Reserve although knowing that few flowers would be around at this time of year.  On the way we got a good - OK, distant - look at the Warrumbungle Range.

The water tank at the Reserve has been painted well including these Glossy Black Cockatoos (of which we saw no trace).

Acacia was in flower ...

.. as were these white flowers.

The grass trees were just beginning to send up flower spikes ....

.. while this Melichrys urceolatus was opening up.

The town is promting itself as the windmill town and has set up a walk along the river bank with many specimens of different types of windmills.

On the way back to Dubbo this mailbox appealed to me.

The park was a little fuller tonight, with people mainly from Victoria.  All well behaved!

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