Bourke

It is now nearly a week since we left Adelaide and we have mostly stayed only one night in each place since we left home. We are now in Bourke and have been here 2 days. We are slowly settling into a new routine. The town of Bourke - made famous by Banjo Patterson and for the term “Back o’ Bourke” - is on the Darling River flood plain and was once an important inland port. Today we cruised the river on a paddle boat, not much water in the river at present but there have been 2 floods this year and the first one raised the river 36 metres - it is difficult to imagine but you can see debris caught high up in trees and high water marks. Pity more of it didn’t find its way further south!