Bogan River, Nyngan, NSW
It is now 10 days and 5000 kilometres since we left Exmouth. Ten days of driving through not much more than short scrubby brush and desert. The scenery has not varied much, except for a couple of glimpses of the Southern Ocean as we left Western Australia at the Nullarbor Plain.
Today for the first time we began to see the signs of all the rain that took place in this part of Australia in January. The rivers were still high, even the smaller creeks had some water in them. The edges of the highway showed water damage, and a couple of times we crossed creeks where the road repairs being done indicated that the bridges must have washed out at these spots.
Tonight we are camped in the Nyngan Riverside Caravan Park, for the first time in months beside a river (and just now we’ve learned right beside the railroad – a train is passing noisily on the other bank) and we can hear a chorus of frogs outside. It is a nice pleasant temperature out this evening with a cool breeze.