11. Roadside stops

We had decided to head west to Broken Hill for a few days which had been another one of those places we have been talking about visiting for a long time.

Talking with Brian & Anne showed that they were also planning to travel the exact route we had planned so we were pleased to have their company whilst travelling.

Our first night stop over was at a free roadside stopping area about 50 kilometres east of Cobar and we parked a bit away from the other occupants. We had both placed some of our washing in a bucket of water to be agitated whilst travelling from the rocking of the caravan. Our washing was strung out between both caravans and then some storm clouds started to move in.
 

Washing time on the road

It wasn’t long before there was a lot of lightning and thunder around us, followed by heavy rain. We had to scamper into the caravan where we spent a couple of hours playing rummy cub and Jenga. There was quite a lot of water flowing through our camp. When we inspected our washing it was covered in mud splashed up by the heavy rain and we had to rewash our clothing before turning in to bed for the night.

The sky’s opened up again in the morning and we hurried to get off the clay surface. Brian & Anne made it ok but as soon as we started to move we sunk steadfast.
 

Well and truly stuck in the mud

The car is out, now for the caravan

It was a long wet morning. We tried lots of different strategies without any progress. Brian disconnected his 4wd from their caravan and we had several attempts to snatch strap us out.  We finally started to get some forward movement then the caravan wheels sunk down into the wheel ruts left by the 4wd stopping our forward motion and it was back to the digging again. Try and try again until we finally had success. It was 11.30 am by the time we started travelling again. Many thanks Brian and Anne!!!

Gee it's hard work, all this digging!!

It doesn't look too bad, but this spot sure caused a few headaches