Just one more sleep...

We survived our last night in Broken Hill, nothing more was stolen however Dave did sleep in his boardshorts with his wallet in his pocket.  We also swapped sides so he was closest if anyone did try and come back...

Packed up and on the road by 8am but forgot that we had yet another time change, wasn't too far down the road and we had to put our clocks forward again another 30 mins, finally we were back on NSW time.

Today was a total driving day, no sightseeing, just our sights set on home.  Dave drove first, it was very wet and difficult to see at times, the road trains throw so much water as they pass in these conditions.  We swapped regularly and made it to Meadow Glen for lunch - this was supposed to be our overnight stop - clearly the distances that we are now able to travel comfortably have changed somewhat from when we did our original planning.

Today we have seen so many emus - well over 100, we have been totally amazed by how many are out there.  There have been lots of goats too - thousands of them also.  We saw a couple of beautiful wedge tailed eagles, I have a new love in my life with these fellas, they are so big and so graceful, they hardly have to flap their wings and off they go, the way they soar and swoop they really are the kings of the sky.  They are to the sky what a shark is to the ocean.

I was very excited as we were coming into Trangie this evening there was a tortoise by the side of the road, I'm scared for him that he's not going to last too much longer as he was moving very slowly towards the busy road.  There was no where to pull over to help him or photograph him but it was so nice to see him - he seemed a little out of place all the way out here.

So tonight we are staying at Trangie at the Tandara Caravan Park.  Its very basic but only cost $30 a night so can't complain and the bathrooms are the ensuite style that I love!!  Anyway we will be gone by 8 at the latest in the morning so we don't need much. 

Trangie is about 80kms short of Dubbo, tomorrow we have just a small drive - only 478kms left and we'll be home.  Kids wanted us to go all the way today, something my father did with me when I was a kid - we drove home from Broken Hill in one go 1250kms - I can see now why he did it we are at that point now where we just want to get there.

There has been heaps of rain out here over the last few days judging by the ground and the size of the puddles.  Fingers crossed the weather man is kind to us enabling us a dry pack up in the morning.

Kms total = 679

Kms travelled overall = 14,408