June 4th

Day 2 of the Road Trek to Alice and Finke

A fresh start out of Griffith this morning, and on the road by 8am, not too early as we felt we had a few hours under our belt from getting to Griffith yesterday. Headed for Broken Hill.

We trusted in the car's GPS to plot the route, foolishly and followed it for half an hour before realising we were headed for Victoria! The whole point was to dodge Victoria! In the end we decided that the only thing to do was back track through Griffith, lose and hour and then head back on track to Broken Hill.

Then we noticed that the 'trusty' gps was directing us through Menindie Lakes, and while not in the original plan sounded interesting. However, of course, the road was flooded and closed so again we had to backtrack (a little) and replot a course up to Cobar, losing more time.

The solution was obviously to stop by the side of the road and have a cuppa and a lamington - solution to everything. It was pretty cool and breezy, but lovely. We were  joined by a flock of Apostle birds and some ring necked parrots then got back on our way to Cobar for lunch at the bakery after topping up the diesel. 


We had planned to top up drinking water as well, but found that no one drinks the water at Cobar - apparently its awful. So we had to buy some water at the IGA and get on our way to Broken Hill.

When I asked for a pit stop, this wasn't quite what I imagined! 

We were treated to a beautiful sunset, hundreds of feral goats, a few red 'roos and an emu before rolling into town after 6pm to the Silver lodge and a pub dinner.

An earlier start tomorrow for a long hop to Coober Pedy.

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