Ponto Falls sounds like it has potential but in reality it's a stretch of brown river. It would be a pleasant spot to camp beside the river in the summer, but it's not summer.
After a quick breakfast of porridge and tea we packed up and were back on the road. We were going to have to do some serious driving today to make it to Broken Hill.
It's surprisingly wet and green in central NSW at the moment. The east coast low that hammered the coast a couple of weeks ago seemed to come further inland than I thought. There are still large pools of water beside the road just east of Cobar and the Bogan River in Nyngan was extremely high.
So far we've seen all kinds of birds including Major Mitchell's, Ringneck parrots and several flocks of emus.
After a long drive to Wilcannia we had to push on as we really wanted to make it to Broken Hill another 200 km west. Between Wilcannia and Broken Hill we had a bit of rain but we kept driving west towards the patch of clear sky on the horizon. By the time we made it to Broken Hill the rain had stopped and it was just on dusk. We found the budget caravan park on the outskirts of town and set up camp.
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