There is not a huge amount to say about the drive, it is long and straight, there are a couple of towns along the way. Nyngan is a tidy place, has a helicopter on a pole and well that is about it really. There are a couple of other small (very) towns along the way and you do get to travel right across Bogan Shire (I kid you not).
Getting close to Bourke there were hundreds of wedge tailed eagles sitting on the road, they would lift off as you approached and do a circle or two before landing back on the road. Was an amazing sight, I have never seen so many in one place and who would have thought that wedge tailed eagles would like playing chicken.
So it took about an hour (being generous) to walk about town and see the River and wharf and the main strip and the court house and the Police Station. There really doesn't seem to be much else out here and I guess there really doesn't need to be. It's just that the heavy duty roller shutters on every store in the main street, well except the ones that don't really have windows at all anyway, and even the 12 foot man fence made out of heavy gauge reo rods with sharpened ends on the car park to the pub I am staying in don't really paint a terribly nice picture of the place. Mind everyone seems very nice and friendly and it all seems ok when all the shutters are open, so who knows really.
Made it! The Front of Bourke
I just like that it is 4WD, 4WD, 4WD, Morris Minor!
Made it here too! The Back of Bourke.
Actually it's not that far from one side to the other.
Looking along the Darling River, used to be one of the busiest ports in Australia for the wool trade.
All the birds are wedge-tail eagles.
Looking back at the Wharf, this river must seriously flood.
Saw the Front and Back of Bourke, this is the middle, note the heavy duty roller shutters
Very few windows and it looks a bit bad for it, no point having them if they just get broken though I guess
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