NSW Outback - Part III

NSW Outback - Part III

Day 5: Wentorth, Lake Mungo, Hay

Day 6: Wagga Wagga, Cootamundra, Goulburn, Sydney

In Wentworth Australia' 2 largest and longest rivers meet.

In the early years Wentworth was one of the largest ports in Australia.


The Darling and Murray rivers meet.

Perry Hill Sands just outside Wentworth

Perry Hills is a small pocket of red sand dunes with wonderful sunsets.

Kimble - Juice making dune shadows.

Some how these wild melons grow in the sand.

Lake Mungo was a very large inland lake thousands of years ago.

This is the sight of the oldest skeleton found in Australia, 40 000 years old.

Luna landscapes

Hay is a large Sheering town

Stopped off in Cootamundra the town where Don Bradman was born.

Australia's greatest cricketer.

Goulburn is home to the "Big Marino"

In total we drove 3500km in 6.5 Days

What an amazing trip. would recommend it to anyone looking to find the real Australia.

NSW Outback - Part II

NSW Outback - Part II

Day 4: Cameron Corner, Tibooburra, malparinka, Broken Hill
Day 5: Broken Hill, Silverton, Wentworth.

The place is dry, they haven't seen rain in 3 months.

The main street in Broken Hill.

Broken Hill is the mining town where BHP started 'Broken Hill Propriety' the largest mining company in the world.

Went to watch the sunset at the Sculpture Symposium

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Silverton population 80. An old mining town 45min outside Broken Hill

This is where they film the movie 'Mad Max' in 1979


RFDS - The Royal Flying Doctors Service.

One of the old RFDS planes.

NSW Outback - Part I

NSW Outback - Part I


Kimble and Juice decided to head out into the NSW Outback over the Easter holidays.

Day 1: Sydney, Lithgow, Bathurst, Orange to Dubbo.
Day 2: Dubbo, Bourke
Day 3: Bourke, Wanaaring, Tibooburra, Cameron Corner.



Bourke has a population of 3200 on the Darling river.



The Darling river is Australia's 2nd longest river.
In the early years it was used by paddle steamers to take wool to melbourne.


Towns started get really small the further we went.

After Bourke the roads turned to red sand.

Emus are the most curious birds. they'll come towards you if you stand still.

The last town before Cameron Corner.

Juice got that Namiba feeling. There's just nothing out here.

At last Cameron Corner.

Where is Cameron Corner?

Cameron Corner is where New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia meet

You drive through 3 time zones as you enter each state.

This is the "Dog Fence" the longest fence in the world. It runs for over 5500km

It keeps the dingos out of the various states and away from the cattle stations.

2.3 km Cronulla Shark Island Swim

Once again Kimble and Juice were in the water for another Ocean swim.
This weekend was the 2.3km Cronulla Shark Island Swim




The conditions were fair,
Outside: 25 Degrees
Water: 20 degrees
Swell: was tough around the island due to tide movement.
Un-wanted: Hammerhead Shark.

Life guards getting ready to patrol the route...I wonder if they knew what was going to happen?

Swimmers getting ready at the start.

Well done to Juice for winning the day.

Juice 00:42:56

Kimble 00:44:44

I wonder how much faster these later swimmers would have been had they known about the Hammerhead shark that was in the water with us?

Clearly the Shark Island swim lived up to it's name.

Looking forward to next years Cronulla Shark Island Swim.

Today's swim was on the News: http://au.video.yahoo.com/watch/4676836/12499392

Roland & Mich PR Party

Went to Rol & Mich's place to celebrate them getting their 'PR' Permanent Residence and it was Rol's birthday.



This is Mich & Rol




The theme was something Aussie!
So Juice went as an Aussie Olympic swimmer.





Wade was so funny as Olivia Newton-John



ASX and Croc Dundee



A blue-bottle, Pat Cash and Carl Williams


Kimble went as an 'Essendon' AFL player.


Rol as 'The Gladiator'


Good night out!