We had our car Randy, Barney, Indi and the Spaceship all packed and set to go. We met at 9am and hit the road north west not long after. On the way we took a detour to have lunch at a local new attraction which was called Dripping Rock. We ate lunch and took a short walk and yes it was dripping. It was truly a great place to stop as we had been driving along dirt roads in the middle of no where and here is this large rock formation with a pool below it and it was dripping constantly from many spots.
We pushed on from here into Narrabri fueled up and then headed directly west out to Pilliga. We pulled into camp and were set up and dinner was cooking within a short time. After dinner we walked across the paddock to soak away the day in the bath. Its funny we have swum in thermal bathes and springs before and we don't recall them ever smelling but this one did. It was not that bad that we didn't want to get in and the water was constantly pumping and fresh but it did have an odor to it. It was lucky though that the smell didnt soak into our skin so we could enjoy the warm water.
Saturday we decided to go and visit other local attractions. We first went past Yarrie Lake and then out to the CSIRO Satellite site. There are 5 dishes at this site and 1 that is 6km away. While we were there we were fortunate enough to see them moving. They rotated towards us and then back up again towards the sky. It again was something we didn't expect to see but fun.
From here we passed back through Narrabri and then up to Mount Kaputar lookout to enjoy the views and have lunch. We then pushed back out and onto our last attraction for the day Sawn rocks. These were fantastic to see at this time of day with the sun beating on them.
Cotton Farming is the biggest industry in the area so while we were driving I tried to capture some of the contrast of the land scape.
We then high tailed it back to camp and pulled in just on dark. Tonight the spaceship cooked while we built fire and made happy hour happy.
Sun set on the way back to camp on Saturday.
Full moon rising looking out from camp.
Moisture in the air creates a ring around the moon this is probably the best one I have seen. It was so large I found it hard to fit in the photo.
Sunrise on Easter morning.
Sunday morning we woke early and got in a quick dip before packing up and hitting the road just on 9am. We wanted to camp a few hours south for the night so that the drive home Monday would not be as long. We stopped along the way to view the Salt caves. We did the 1km walk to the caves only to find out that there is a second car park right next to the caves but we enjoyed the walk anyway. We then pulled out of Pilliga Forest and onto the black top and headed for Coonabarabran. We pulled in and headed for the information centre. Here we planned our next camp and stopped for lunch under a tree.
The moon is still also up the colours across the sky were stunning.
We were headed for Coolah Tops national park. We needed to pull into Coolah and the clouds were dark and heavy looking. It was discussed at that point that 3 out of the 4 cars had broken parts on their tents and 1 just couldnt open so we decided to pike out and stay the night in a motel or hotel. Coolah didnt have anything so we called ahead to Dunedoo where we got 4 motel rooms.
We had a long relaxing happy hour after hot showers and then walked around the corner to the pub. It was a great way to end a fun weekend. Monday morning we ate at the bakery together and then took off in seperate directions. 2 cars went home via Mudgee and 2 went via Singleton. We pulled into home early unpack and washed the car and were very relaxed. We did cover alot of km's but it was relaxing and fun to do with a great group of friends.
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