Photos of Australia : Photos of places

I have had a lot of trouble adjusting and maintaining a blog that is interesting since we left the sea life, therefore I am going to change tack, I will just add photos of places we travel and give comments on those if required.

Hope you enjoy the pictures (click on them to enlarge).

Orroroo South Australia

(Cloud formation on the way to Orroroo)

(Look close you can see Nancy hugging the tree, gives you an idea of size)

Road to Broken Hill

(Emus run along the sides of the road)

Mannahill

(Mannahill Railway Station a nice old building)

Mundi Mundi Lookout

(Mundi Mundi Lookout just past Silverton near Broken Hill, you can see the curvature of the earth)

Silverton

(Silverton welcoming committee, the donkey came over to us)

(Silverton wasan old mining town and came alive again with the making of the Mad Max movie. Since our previous visit back in 1996 the town has now got more tourist attractions one being this Mad Max Museum)

(One of the Mad Max vehicles)

(Obviously out of Mad Max)

(Cottage at Silverton)

Little Topar

(Sunset at Little Topar, this is a roadhouse stop and you can free camp there)

63Kms before Cobar

(Apostle Birds at a roadside stop, there must have been around thirty or more of them and they all flocked around for a feed, this is the adult and two young mainly seen in rural areas)

(On the way to Cobar, plenty of goats on the road, the four legged kind)

Cobar

(Great Western Hotel Cobar, as you can see it is early Sunday morning not many people around)

(Mining Heritage Park Cobar)

Nyngan

(Nyngan Memorial for the 1990 Floods where the whole town was evacuated by helicopter)

(Nyngan Council Chambers, we worked out of here during the recovery of Nyngan after the floods, I was in charge of Dubbo Bush Fire Fighters that assisted first in the sandbagging of the levy banks then when they failed they helped evacuate the residents then went back to help people clean up)

(Nyngan Railway Station, this and the RSL was the driest place after the levy banks breached, one of the brigade Captains used a truck he found with the keys in it to go door to door getting people and transporting them to the station where they were dry and safe, they spent the night there then the next morning choppers went in and picked them up and dropped them just past the flood area where they were transported by buses into Dubbo)

(Nyngan has two free overnight stay places, this the evacuation Memorial Park and the Teamsters rest in the main street)

Port Stephens

(Shoal Bay at Port Stephens. Port Stephens has a large number of bays and nice beaches, the port via sea can be entered under most weather conditions).

Bulahdelah

(What a great idea, reminding the children as they enter school)

(Looks like a picture from the past years, vintage cars in Bulahdelah)

(Pretty colours that we saw on the mountain walk)

(Myall River Bulahdelah)

Wingham

(Manning River Reserve at Wingham, the local council offers free overnight parking for self contain vehicles although they do have toilets and water available at the area. They request that you put any shopper dockets in a locked yellow box located by the sign this is so they can see that free campers actually spend money in the township, you can also put a donation in the same box towards the upkeep of the area, and why wouldn't you.)

(Same place as above the mist on the early morning water)

(Vampire jet in the park near Wingham RSL)

(The Rolls Royce jet engine out of the Vampire Jet located in the museum)

(Bats in the Wingham Brush National Park, at last light the bats would take flight and near blacken the sky for more than 20 minutes)

Coopernook

(Coopernook Hotel, great friendly staff and good meals they also offer free overnight parking for motorhomes and caravans, naturally you have a beer or a meal at the hotel.)

(Coopernook State Forest Campground, this is a great free campground for those that are self contained, there are little facilities, very small water tank and a long drop toilet, Nancy sitting at our daily fire early evening)

(This used to be the Coopernook State Forest office and Rangers quarters, the history group listed below are getting the old building in shape and intend having a museum inside)