Lightning Ridge

What a visually, exciting town is Lightning Ridge.  We stayed 3 days, but could have stayed a lot longer!  We found a new caravan park that had only been opened since Easter and this was the view from our van!  It was in walking distance to the artesian bore, so once again there was lots of floating around in the water.  However, this water was a little too hot so we didn't spend too long there!

We followed the Car Door tour around the town, maps and description set out by the tourist information centre!  We would have liked to do the official tour around town but it would have taken too long and we would have had to leave our baby!  This is the only time we have had to rethink our travels, she has been such a good little traveller and companion!

We did get to visit the cactus gardens, amazing!  Bonnie was allowed to come, but the lovely owner of the park suggested that it may be more treacherous for her, than the cacti!

She stayed in the car, and I was able to play with the new Iphone to capture these arty shots of the cacti!

We left Lightning Ridge and headed for Wellington.  A 400km day, we have decided that is a good mileage to do, especially with this being the holiday of mishaps!  My turn to drive, it seems to happen when I am at the wheel, a large road train, and our caravan mirror just disappeared from the car after a rather loud bang!  We were lucky, no damage to the car, it must have hit the van as a cupboard had been flung open.  At least it wasn't as messy as the drippy peach tins, but I did have the contents of a cupboard on the floor, including a jar of Vegemite which didn't break!

The weather has started to get cooler, the long pants will be on soon and we will have to farewell our shorts and T-Shirts!