Up the Central Highway

We have travelled from Sydney to Maitland to Moree to Roma up the Central highway.

A koala in the wild!



Long hot days of flat extremely dry plains, grasses, scrub forest, past coal mines for over 100 Kms and vast farmland.  Apparently when they harvest these fields they use seventeen harvesters in tandem.


Horses in the hot sun!



We have seen emus with their babies, 

Emu with chicks, crossing the road.

a koala, flocks of grey and pink parrots, large white parrots, and one kangaroo.




Cattle in the long paddock - the road way, with drovers!

There were a number of large cattle drives down the highway we were on. That was interesting! Oh and horses of course. We stopped at Suratt which is the horse capital of Australia.



It was explained it to too costly to wash the dogs at home!

We spent a few hours with a quilting group and bought some patterns.

Alan is handling the very long drives well. Often it is over two hours without seeing a person, car or building. This area is quite remote.

The sun is so hot that rug hooking in the car deflects the heat from my legs!

I have been hooking in my horse rug as we drive as well as taking photos.





We are now in Emerald for the night. Tomorrow we are going to see the Gem Fields.

More to follow tomorrow once we have settled in here.
Talk to you soon!
Katherine & Alan


Central Australia