Left the Dubbo Big 4 caravan park early this morning we even set the alarm in case we slept in boy was that a culture shock. The caravan was getting the TV Antenna repaired and a service we wanted to make sure we got to repair shop on time.
Dubbo has a number of major highways which pass through it making it a hub. The Newell takes traffic from Melbourne to Brisbane the Mitchell takes traffic from Sydney to Burke on into Western Queensland. There is also the Sunshine Highway which goes from Dubbo to Newcastle.
From Lightning Ridge we are now heading towards Dubbo where our TV Antenna will be repaired. We tried to book in to a caravan park in Dubbo unfortunately for us the school holidays are on as well as the weekend was a public holiday so there are no vacancies for another 6 days, we had to decide what to do until then.
Lightning Ridge is proberbly the first large tourist town we had been in since leaving Mt Isa and there are plenty of things to see for the discerning tourist.
The day after we lost our awning the storms came in with some heavy rain overnight. This tested our water tightness and we are happy to say there were no leaks detected so far. The following day was pretty much gloomy and we spent most of it inside the van. There was one quick walk into town to pick up some bread and milk from Woollies and a brief as time possible spent BBQing some sausages for the evening meal.