To Lightning Ridge

Even with the coughing, now from Max and I, we all had a much better sleep overnight. A relatively easy morning, just popping everything back into the car, feeding the boys and battling Max to spray Fess up his nose. We headed into town to stock up at the pharmacy and to get a few more groceries before heading to Lightning Ridge. It's ridiculously windy today, hopefully better out of town.
We headed for Lightning Ridge with a few stops in mind if needed, but once Max fell asleep, that was him for the trip, so we just pushed on. We stopped at Stanley the Emu, a metal art sculpture that was originally meant for Birdsville. There was a story at the rest stop, explaining that Lightning ridge got it's name after a stockman and his flock of sheep died after a lightning strike. The locals seemed to disagree with the actual location however.
Next we stopped off for a quick photo at the welcome sign, before heading to the information centre. Lots of Opal related signage around, it reminded us of Emerald and Sapphire when we did our Cape trip, funnily enough.
Onward through town to the caravan park for 2 nights. We're staying at the big4 Opal park and splurged on an ensuite site while we get used to travelling with Max. Pup slept through set up, he was stoked when he realised his expensive kennel was here, straight into a tantrum on his bed.
We were all pretty exhausted and being sick doesn't help, so as much as we wanted to venture out for a little bit, we decided just to rest up and chill.
The park is lovely, the bore baths are 200m up the road, we saw a group of people walking up with their towels when we got in. Also at 4:30pm each afternoon there's a social gathering at they pavillion where a few locals have a yarn, sometimes they have a comedian etc, super lovely, just not for us. They also told us that there's barista coffee each morning, so I might need to test that out.
Usual evening routine, cooking up dinner, showers and settling in, just added playtime for Maxy. Both Ben and I struggled to get the 'soap' off us when we had a shower, didn't realise until later that it's obviously the water up here.
Not too much of a battle at bedtime, with the exception of trying to get pup back outside for a wee before bed.もっと詳しく