Day 4 - St George to Lightning Ridge

Woke to a rainy day - lucky it was an easy pack up, just the water hose and power cord.
Wayne wasn't feeling so good yesterday, blurry vision, headache, light headed so we tested his Blood Pressure - not good. 160/90 which is too high. Did some research and found our new diet (Carnivore) is bad for anyone with High Blood Pressure.
A lot of Cheese & Salt add stress and no exercise (Leg injury) and that's the result.

Off to the IGA to buy some normal food for Wayne. Left St.George and drove to Lightning Ridge, easy drive, not much traffic and surprisingly not much wildlife....few goats, couple of emu's and cows. Heard some alarms going off at 80 ft intervals as we drove past them on the highway, apparently they are to scare off the wildlife from going onto the roads plus they have fences to keep them off the road. There were no dead roos which was very unusual so they must be working.

Don't remember anything about LR from when I was here as a kid except the Bottle House and Artesian Water baths. Town has obviously grown as there are plenty of shops now.

Staying at Big4 which is lovely, bit muddy from all the rain they had yesterday. I had a swim in the 'Pool' whew is was warm- loved it.

Planning the next few days here to check out a mine etc.Read more