The trip here took almost 12 hours but we had a few stops on the way. One was a pit stop in Gulgong and it just so happened that it was "Welcome back to Gulgong" Day. So there was a market and a parade, which was lots of fun. Everyone paraded, the Golf Club members, the farmers, some herding sheep and some driving tractors, the motorbike drivers, the veteran car drivers, the camel-farm people, and kids from school etc. It was charming and made you feel like you wanted to live and belong to such a community rather than being part of a big faceless mass in a big city.
The trip after that went quite quickly though, maybe because hubby took the opportunity to teach me binary numbers. So once I got the knack of it he told me a number that I had to give him in binary.
After a while we had to give up on that and play another favorite game - thinking of animals starting with an A and so on. This time we tried to do it in French. We have lived in France for 28 years but after being away for 3 years it seems that our brain have atrophied. We couldn't think of anything beyond 'chat et chien', it was pathetic.
The Outback is great! People can be a bit special, in fact it is almost a must. They have all come here for a reason, usually to find the big opal and get rich but it is also a life style. So many have given up their previous jobs to come out here and stake a claim. I was surprised though, to learn that of the miners, the female miners, then the families were in majority before the male miners. I really thought it was a male "thing" but clearly I was wrong.
We are staying in a B & B called Sonja's guesthouse and it it very nice and comfortable and it will be almost sad to leave tomorrow.
It is bedtime, after a full day out and about, of which I'll tell you more later. So goodnight from Lightning Ridge, apparently called thusly after lightning struck and killed a farmer and his dog and his 600 sheep.
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