Dubbo, NSW 24July2022

 Dubbo, NSW - 24Jul2022 - 410km

Our first day out after 3 years of covid lockdowns and generally being fiddled about. We are on our way to Cairns to pick up our twice delayed (originally overseas trips, now transferred to Outback Spirit) Outback Spirit tour of CapeYork. Mind you it was a close run thing: Covid is spreading seemingly unchecked through the Canberra Community. Our children had had it, our friends were down with it and it seemed almost inevitable that we too should succumb. Which we did and ‘luckily’ for us it was three weeks out from our start date so we feel confident that we should be able to get to Cairns without going down again. We have both been left weakened and lacking in get-up-and-go, which seems to have done just that. I have a dreadful choking cough and Judith has bronchitis, but apart from that wer'e fighting fit!

So this, our first day out was a 6 hour run from Canberra up through Booroowa, Cowra and on to Dubbo, with a stop in Molong for lunch. Molong was a bit of a surprise, we had formed the opinion from past visits that it was basically closed on Sundays, but this time through there is a great new eat-in cafe called Wildflowers in one of the side streets. Excellent!

We made it into the NRMA park in Dubbo in good time and were greeted by an immaculate park with all drive-through sites. We set up the van quick-smart and proceeded to sit in the sun for a hour or so. Two cute little grass parrots came  to visit and didn't seem the least bit concerned about us. We took some snaps to get started our photo gallery.

Continuing our tradition, the first night our dinner is eaten out, this time in the Dubbo RSL, a good meal with so much roast pork we brought the leftovers home for tomorrow lunches sandwiches.

Grass Red-rumped Parrot

Just how cold can it get in Dubbo? Very, very cold overnight as it turns out. We ended up with the doona, two blankets and I even had to put the track-pants and sweat shirt on and still froze all night. The heater went back on at 6am and stayed on until we left at 915.