From Lake Cargelligo we continued down the Lachlan Valley Way to Condobolin, where we again meet the Lachlan River on its way to Forbes. The Lachlan River is what is known as a terminal river, it flows into a sort of limbo place. The Great Cumbung Swamp in the case of the Lachlan. Apart from during high flood years its waters do not join the Murrumbidge and consequently nor the Murray and the sea.

The road down to Condobolin passes by seemingly endless pastoral and farming properties. A few (must have been around 2000 of them) nice cows are being driven down a stock transfer route. It is all green and sheep are thick in the paddocks as well , it seems our farmers will be having a good season. Maybe lamb prices will drop in a month or two, wishful thinking?

A few years back a farming couple started to do up old Holden utes with some catchy sort of cartoony presentation. They were in the paddock beside the road, hence ‘Utes in the Paddock’. Often with a subtle message.

Today, they have been collected up and presented in a paddock beside the Condobolin Visitors Centre. Also added to by artistic types with new creations. Very entertaining for a nomad after a long drive from Lake Cargelligo!

In moving on to Forbes down the Lachlan Valley Way we are greeted with a series of sculptures in the scrub. A little guide sheet locates them for us and there are well set up pulls off to get off the road and peruse these art works. Sometimes it is all a bit puzzling understanding sculpture, but the little info plaques help us understand the ‘inner meaning’ of this stuff.

Do hope dear readers that you can pick up the meaning of all this artistic stuff from these info plaques.

This one is rather good!

We found it an interesting distraction from taking pictures of the river and all the old bridges.

We then skipped on through Forbes, having our lunch beside Lake Forbes, a billabong type thing back from the river that has been enhanced and is now a great spot for a free camp.

But we have to keep moving in order to get to Cowra for the night and have a couple of days to pursue the source of the Lachlan.