After a night at Parkes due to no booking having been made anywhere else and limited options, it's back on the road to continue on with the trip up north. Now the plan was to go through Manildra and Molong and on to Dunedoo by the shortest route, though the roads were closed due to flood damage and thus a 66 kilometre diversion out to Wellington and then 112 Kilometres back to where I had planned to go, oh well can't help flood damage. From Dunedoo I wanted to get to a Silo art location in Barraba, again by the shortest route and Google maps highlighted a good and direct route through Boggabri. Well it would have been a good route if the road was sealed or if it even resembled a road. that section sure gave the suspension a good work out and some sections were so bad it was done in second gear at 20 kilometres an hour. I actually could have lost the car in a few of the pot holes in the "road".
I did drive out to Manildra and Molong but Manildra was hard to get to and see clearly as there wear cars and trucks parked everywhere, so gave that up as a lost cause. Molong on the other hand, the water tank was easy enough to locate at the entrance to the town, but it was impossible to get the car anywhere near enough to get a pic unfortunately. Silo pictures improved as the day progressed though.
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| The traffic was a nightmare heading for Dunedoo |
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| Silo art at Dunedoo |
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| As it says on the sign... |
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| "Prepare" as the traffic was so bad on the cattle track called a road |
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| Barraba silo art, The Water Diviner by Fintan Mcgee |
Bingara the stop for tonight, had hoped to get further, but...
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