Pilliga

We spent a couple of days at the Pilliga Bore Baths. This is a free camp just outside the township of Pilliga, and I use the word "township" loosely, it maybe has a few houses, a cafe & not much else. The artesian water is warm and is piped directly into the pool and is beautiful to sit in and relax, some believe it has healing properties for arthritis and aching limbs, but I just enjoy the warm relaxing feeling.
From here, we went for a drive to Burren Junction some 40 klms away. My Mum's brother and his wife were the licencees for the NSW Railway Refreshment Rooms from the 50's/60's until they closed down in 1979 and I was curious to find out some history. My Aunt & Uncle have both died, I didn't know them because we lived so far away from them, but the fact I was so close to the place they'd lived for so long, was a bit of a drawcard. I managed to talk to an old timer who knew him very well and found out some information....he showed me the first house they'd lived in before they moved to railway accomodation. It was nice to have some form of connection. The Refreshment rooms have long been pulled down but we did some scavenging around the area and found some broken pieces of china with the NSW railways stamp on them. Burren Junction is a very dilapadated place now with probably about 100 people living there, some of them seasonal due to grain or cotton production.

Today (2nd June) is only the second day we've had rain, much needed by the farmers now sowing the grain crops. But it didn't deter us, the weather might have been damp, but not cold.

Pelicans were always on the lookout for fish in the lagoon in the next padddock.

The lagoon at sunset......beautiful, isn't it?

This is the pool

We didn't bother putting out the awning as we only were there a couple of days. Those dark clouds in the background disappeared during the day as the breeze picked up and dried out the ground.