Off we go!

So we packed the camper and the Pajero and off we went at 0840 on 2 June.  You may recall on our trip last year it was snowing as we left.  Not so this time, but it was -3^oC and the side window on El Camion was well frosted.

As we headed up the Lachlan Valley towards Cowra there was lotsa water in the paddocks and the hills were very green.

 I like this snap with the mirror.  Yes, Frances took both of these.

 There was lotsa roadworks as well.  This bunch had totally unnecessarily closed our road, some where near Molong.

We took a comfort stop in Wellington where the nice park  had the biggest range of prohibitions I can remember seeing.

 They also had an interesting swing bridge over the Bell River.

 The stop in Wellington took about 30 minutes.  Which was good as I reckon we missed this by about 30 minutes.

The first lot of debris was up past the police car and there were people trapped in the wreck so the road was closed.  As there was nothing about this in the Dubbo Daily Liberal the next day I assume that there were no fatalities.) After I got advice from the folk on the LHS (whose car seems to have been hit by the rolling wreck) we headed back towards Dubbo and cut around - through quite a few flooded causeways - to Eumungerie, where we scored a War Memorial.

The memorial included this reference to the Cooee March ..

 .. and the cut out figures on the windmill walk at Gilgandra also reference the March.

 Here is a windmill!

 This is an innovative arrangement on a car towing a van.  I presume the textile stops crap getting on the van.

 Here is our first camp.  The site at Gilgandra seems excellent.

• Bird of the Day:  Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater.  Pied Butcherbird was a contender, as were the 7 Black Kites soaring over Gigandra.  The flock of the day was about 400 Galahs coming in to roost in Gilgandra.
• Vegetation of the day: Flowering eucalypts along the Windmill walk.
• Memorable moment:  The car wreck.
• Comment of the day: a reference to Tammy as a man-eater.

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