On the road to Gundagai. Day 2 of the Easter trip.

Tonight we are in Gundaga having completed another 570 km of driving.

After a very warm, and fairly sleepless night (too quiet and too many mozzies) we admired our surroundings some more before breaking camp.  Someone had put in a lot of work in organizing their gear here.  We wondered if it was the same guy who left his very expensive dririder jacket behind hanging on a tree.

The fishing barge across the river looked lovely this morning.

We hadn't gone far before we saw the first of many irrigation channels-flood irrigating from the river (and using the water before it makes it to South Australia) .

 Just the other side of Moulamein  (with interesting and very comfy swing)

we passed the site for the Confest this year. The sign on the road said "Hippies turning in 500m"
 The local (and not so local) constabulary were highly visible in the area, and we sighted 13 marked police cars, including 4 dog squads, and 1 bus in the local area!! The cops already had a checkpoint up and running with no avoiding a strict vehicle inspection.

Our lunch stop was at Conargo,  where they have childcare once a week. The kids were in the playground right by the picnic area with their carers, who travel in a truck with all their gear to a different town each weekday. So we enjoyed a little boy pretending to be a rooster through our entire lunch stop.(!)

We were travelling on one of the historic stock routes, and passed a couple of mobs of cattle (complete with stockman on motorbike with dog). He may have been called Clancy. 

One of our last stops was at Rock Hill reserve just before Wagga , where we finally found our first geocache for the trip (Kate, please let Jack know)

 before heading into town and laughing at the signage on the local telephone exchange.

After some deliberation about where and when to stop, and a bit of searching, we opted to stop in Gundagai  at an RV friendly park (a patch of grass by the river) where we put out the awning (20% chance of rain) near two historic bridges. We will have a bit of road traffic noise , but it doesn't seem too bad.  Here's hoping for a yummy tea, and a sleep filled night.

Tomorrow we run