We had a fairly quiet night apart from the trucks and the noise from the mine in the distance.
The plan for today, subject to change of course is to have breakfast in Peak Hill and visit an old gold mine there, then go on to the Parks telescope for lunch. From there is any bodies guess.
We will see what happens.
After leaving the camp site we visited the open cut gold mine pit at Peak Hill. Sarah was carried off by the mozzies and almost dropped her in the pit. Once we had escaped the mozzie militia and retrieved Sarah we quickly learnt all we could about gold mining, snapped a few pics and hit the road again.
The Parks Radio Telescope proved to be less risky but a lot more interesting than the gold mine.
The Dish is one of the real science icons in Australia. I must have been there twenty or thirty times and it is always interesting. The kids spent ages looking through the displays and even more time deciding what souvenirs to get. Tim is currently reading every display and learning lots.
We had a yummy beef and wine pie along with cosmic milkshakes for lunch before heading south again. 
We decided to see how far we could get to try to make up time. We managed to get to Narranderra in time for the rain and are currently camped at a sports field on the banks of the Murrumbidgee if the rain gets heavy we might have the fun of a muddy pack up in the middle of the night Looks unlikely at the moment as the ground is fairly solid and the rain has eased.
Tomorrow we are planning on going to Echuca so Tim can visit the woodturner. All other plans will be firm after they have happened.
Very cool about getting back to Echuca. Isn't that where it all began?
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