Looking to the west, all you could see was menacing black clouds this morning. It must be time to head north east. There is talk of up to 100 mm of rain in those clouds and I was not hanging around to see if it was true.
Over one of the last surviving raising bridges on the Murray River at Tooleybuc and it was off towards the Hay Plain.
You were certainly reminded of being in cotton country with little cotton balls lining the road from being blown from the fields or coming from the large bales transported on road trains out of the region. I have been through this area many times and have never seen the cotton harvested but had the opportunity with the harvest in full swing. It was interesting that they had fire trucks on standby while the harvest is going on.
The black skies were remaining in the rear vision mirror and the sun started to sneak through with the solar putting in 1.0 Amps to the battery in the caravan. The temperature was now climbing as well to around 23-24C but the wind was ever present and a head wind as well. Oh well there goes the good fuel consumption. Instead of 15-16 l/100km, it was now up around 19-20.
The farmers must know something with tractors and seeders whizzing around paddocks and the constant haze of paddocks being burnt of their stubble, the further east I travelled. Once I arrived at West Wyalong tonight, checked the weather radar and it certainly looks like the area is going to be soaked in the next few days.
Getting into town a little earlier allowed me to grab the geocaches in town and managed to get all but one. Tomorrow the trip takes me to Dubbo for a couple of days.
