Trip to Narrabri

This trip was at the end of January and happened to be my birthday. A student R/N, Sumaya, asked me to go with her to Narrabri, some 380kms west as she wanted to sit her drivers license in a small town, rather than in Sydney where she comes from. This was the closest place with an appointment to suit her days off. It was a good driving experience for her as she hadn't been on the open road or overtaken another vehicle or driven in heavy rain! ....I was on the edge of my seat on a few occassions, but she did very well.

Narrabri is known for its cotton industry

On the way back, we had time to stop and take photos of the countryside. .

There were sunflowers growing on the roadside like weeds and plantations of sorghum, which is grown for cattle feed. It was the wrong time of the year to see cotton. It had just been planted

This sorghum plantation stretched as far as one could see
Sumaya was very exited when we came across these cows cooling off in an irrigation ditch. Being a city girl she hadn't seen cows on a farm

We stopped in Weewaa, the capital of Australia's cotton industry, for refreshments and took a fancy to this old hotel. I bet it could tell some stories.
These grain silos towered above us on the roadside
and the road stretched on into the distance. The same scenery km after km.

Then we had a torrential downpour with fork lightening striking ahead in the distance, to drown the monotony. It was a full day leaving just on daybreak and getting home on dark.