On Wednesday the 15th, from west of Cobar we
travelled to Wilcannia and stopped for coffee. Then on to Broken Hill and
booked in to the Tourist Park. Surprisingly there were no powered sites left.
It was nearly full so we took a couple of non-powered sites. But then booked in
for four nights all up. We had bad weather on the way and I needed to be on a
powered site as there would be no solar for my panels. Decided not to run the
fridge on 12 volt while travelling. To much of a drain.
I had to visit the medical centre as my foot had become
infected from a mozzie bite that I had scratched way to much. Fair dinkum, only
three days on the road and I have to see a Doctor. It had got so bad I could
not put a boot on. That was one of the reasons we decided to stop in Broken
Hill for a few days. I needed to get my foot better before hiking up mountains
around the Flinders Ranges where we were headed next.
Of course people interpreted my plight this way, “Pete had
to see a Doctor because he had a mozzie bite? What a whimp’.
On Thursday we took a drive around town. Went up to the line
of load and the miners memorial. The coffee shop up there had gone out of
business unfortunately so we missed out.
They make seats big around here or we have shrunk a bit.
We went on to the Palace Hotel for lunch. There are murals all
over the wall. They need some touch up as they are showing wear & tear. The
verandahs on this old hotel are amazing. The views are up and down the street
are also from that verandah.
As Linda and I have already been to Broken Hill a couple of
times we took the opportunity to catch up on blogging and some maintenance while
Jan & Ross had a look around at the sights. The rain has been bucketing
down. Great to see it for the sake of everyone here and around about as the
drought has been bad.
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