Friday...1 August 2014

Happy Birthday to all the horses in Australia. I keep thinking that it would be a bitch to be born yesterday if you were a horse, because even though you are only a day old, the horse world says you are one already, talk about being old before your time!
Last night we stopped at the Kidman Caravan Park in Bourke, we like this park, it is large and has several sites set aside and clearly marked for XLarge vans only. We always find a good spot to park but it is a shame that they do not keep on eye on this area as every time we have been there we always find some tiny little pop top parked up like a wart on granny's nose in the middle of a huge drive through site meant for big rigs and buses. And, as always, at the end of the day without fail you will see some poor travel weary bloke with a very large van circling the park trying to find a spot that he will fit into and there sits the wart laughing and drinking without a care in the world in the one site that the big van would easily fit whilst several normal sites remain vacant through out the park!  Grrrrrr, I am not a fan of rule breakers!
Today we have travelled down to Hillston along the Kidman Way.
The word for today is Goats, lots and lots of goats. I think they are being farmed but as most of the terrain is natural bush I did wonder if they could be feral. We often saw small groups of them on the sides of the road. I worried they may be run over, but Himself pointed out that unlike the kangaroos, there was no dead goats on or near the roads. He was right as always!!

We also saw kangaroos, sheep, emus, cows and lots and lots of crows. Crows with attitude, they are not afraid of oncoming traffic and they are not going to give up their  place on the fresh roo carcass that is today's dinner. Sometimes there are so many of them you cannot see why they are in the middle of the road until you are only a few feet away from their smelly trophy!
The wind has been blowing a gale all day and although there was no rain it did become overcast in places as there were some very large storm clouds up above us. I believe we may be on the outside edge of the big storm cell that passed over Victoria last night. The temperature here is flagged as being 15-1. Hmmmm that sounds a tiny bit cold.
Tonight we are going over the road to the local RSL for dinner and I have been told several times by a friend  that they serve the best Chinese meals ever. We will find out for ourselves if there is any truth in that statement.