Bourke - 1 July 2014

It was -1 degree this morning. A chilly night. It took me a little while to get going this morning. It ended up being a warmer day than we have had the last few days, and most importantly, the winds had dropped right off.

We went to the Outback Show at the Exhibition Centre this morning. It was a show using camels, horses, dogs and bullocks. It was a great show and the animals were great - very clever. The fellow putting them through their paces was a bit of a comedian and it made for a very entertaining show.

He mentioned during the course of the show that an IPad was being given away and that you needed to pay attention during the Show. Anyway at the end of the Show, he asked what his daughter's name was. I piped up with the answer. I wondered what I was going to get, expecting a picture of an IPad. He went over to a box and came over to me and handed me a packaged sterile eye pad! We all burst out laughing. Very clever. I knew it would not be a real IPad!

We drove into town and had some lunch before going for a walk looking at some of the old buildings. The Lands Department building is lovely.

From town, we drove out to the old Lock and Weir, a few k's out of town. It was built in 1897 and is the only one of its kind built on the Darling River. They were going to build about 40 of them, but the rest never eventuated.