Outback tour - Part II

On the road again

From the corner country we headed south to Broken Hill and Mungo NP. Broken Hill is a mining town which bizarrely runs on Adelaide time (although its still in NSW) which is a silly 30 minutes behind NSW time. Add to this the confusion of Queensland being an hour behind NSW at the start of the trip and then NSW moving back an hour in the middle of the tour (daylight saving or something). With all that going on I didn't really know what time it was for most of the time. Lucky someone else did.

Lace Monitor

In Broken Hill we had a good day down an old silver mine and also sat in on a lesson at the School of the Air which teaches the kids out on all the sheep stations and country properties via satellite. This was surprisingly entertaining. "There's a shARk in the pARk!" pup bARked. I think you had to be there.

"Clumping" White-breasted Woodswallows

One new bird on this leg of the trip with two pairs of Chestnut Quail-thrush #396 showing up in the Mungo NP.

The Walls of China - Mungo NP

Chestnut Quail-thrush