Three Rivers Run – Day 8 & 9 – The final run home.
We woke up to perfect blue skies in Broken Hill – of course !! Unfortunately our trip was rapidly coming to an end and it was time to pack up and start the long drive home.
It was a reasonably uneventful 10 hour day of driving. We were chasing a storm that had left a fair amount of water in it'stracks with water lapping at the road edges so i made the decision to drive all the way from Broken Hill to West Wyalong, as this would give us options to get home on Sunday if the storm behind us dropped too much water on already wet ground.
By the time we finished dinner the drizzle had started again and we were hopeful that the predicted storm didn't eventuate as more roads closed were going to be problematic for the final leg home. Thankfully it did stop raining during the night, we had a nice dry pack up and were back on the road.
As with all good things they must to an end, and usually the end always involves a few down sides (besides the actual end itself). For us, as we are self contained it means emptying the porta-loo!
We stopped in at Grenfell where the local lions club have done a great job in providing facilities for the travel through and staying RV/camping community including the essential dump-point.
As we neared home having cleared the Goulburn River NP and making our way through Bylong Valley, we were treated to a flowing Goulburn River (which the previous Saturday when we passed was but a trickle between the ponds in the sandy creek bed). We were a bit shocked to see it that full actually even though we knew there had been rain we weren't expecting a flowing river. Tash was trying to to grab some shots out the window until we found a safe place to pull over.
Oh My Goodness – Its flowing.
A magical sight to see the Goulburn River flowing.
After another big day of driving, we arrived home safe and sound just before dark .
Thanks everyone for following along our little adventure, we had an amazing trip and cant wait for our next one.
We had a lovely night around the fire, the temperature wasn't as cool as the past few nights so we roasted a few marshmallows and enjoyed the peace and quiet of our surroundings and our few and far between neighbours.
Tash woke up for sunrise and wandered to the river edge and reported back grey clouds so I rolled over and went back to sleep as I haven't been sleeping all that well. I think its safe to say that she isn't going to last much longer as my weather/light reporter.
We were starting to get the hang of this holiday thing, so we had a lovely cooked birthday breakfast (cooked by myself!) before packing up and heading off.
It's pretty hard this camping thing!
As we headed out of town we couldn't help but stop at the Lock again.
Just out of the town of Wentworth is Perry Sandhills. The sandhills cover an area of approximately 160 hectares, and have been formed over the past 40,000 years by wind erosion and are continually shifting due to the wind.
As turned off the main road to head to the dunes i noticed an Roads vehicle sitting on the edge of the road, I'm not sure why but i as we went past them i took a few looks in the mirror, thinking oh boy they probably haven't seen our camper before and i wondered if they might try to do a 'once over' on us. We pulled into the carpark and as i got out of the car i saw the roads vehicle pull up beside us with their lights on and i all i could think was "i don't have time for this!" … turns out the two guys were keen campers and hadn't seen our camper before but weren't quick enough to catch the name, so came after us figuring the dunes were a pretty good guess as to where we headed. It was quite funny in the end and we ended up chatting to them for about 20 minutes and showing them all over the camper.
We explored the dunes for a little while enjoying the beautiful sunshine but knowing it was time to move on.
As the dunes have shifted and grown they have engulfed the trees.
It's quite a sight from the top looking out over the farms and back to the town.
The boys are also enjoying the trip.
We had a quick lunch stop down by the river.
Being self-sufficient makes life on the road a little easier.
We were headed for Broken Hill and by the looks of it straight into a decent storm. Thankfully we managed to skirt round the edge of it.
The storm we skirted around the edges of.
Silver City Highway heading into Broken Hill.
We headed out to the racecourse once we arrived in the Hill to set up camp. We headed back to town and up the hill to the The Line of Lode Miner's Memorial. It is also a symbolic and spiritual representation of the human tragedy of more than 800 deaths since mining commenced in Broken Hill in 1883. The Line of Lode is the ore body that bisects the town.
Memorial with the town behind.
The memorial to the 800 or more miners who lost their lives working along the Line of Lode.
The views from the memorial are pretty spectacular.
It's a little strange seeing green and not a big red dust bowl.
With sunset closing in on us, we decided to take a very quick trip out to Silverton. With only a week of holidays and lots of closed roads, we have had to take the long way around and we were now working out our priorities and unfortunately Silverton this trip drew a short straw.
I was hoping for a sunset but it wasn't to be. The clouds off Mundi Mundi lookout looking out across the plains were pretty sweet.
We woke to a little rain and decided to pack up whilst it was only lightly sprinkling before heading into town to the visitor centre.
Armed with a little more regional info we headed to the outskirts of Hay to Shear Outback – the Shearers Hall Of Fame.
We wandered around the museum for quite awhile. It's not a big museum but it had a lot interesting artifacts, recorded interviews and photos.
They also do three live shearing demonstrations. We had missed the first one, so we headed back to camp to hook Leeroy up and come back in time to catch the next one.
The shearing shed where the demonstration is held is actually an old Murray Downs shearing shed that they dismantled, and transported to Hay for reassembly specifically for the museum – quite amazing really.
We had a quick bite to eat at the cafe attached to the museum, which was obviously also popular with the locals and oh boy did those gluten filled scones look amazing or what!!! Tash is being sympathetic and hasn't yet indulged in any gluten yumminess, even though I've been pointing out the bakeries and cake shops – well someone else might call it scoffing rather than pointing out lol.
After lunch we got hack on the road and headed towards Balranald. We weren't sure how much of the rain they had received so had a few options as to where we might spend the night if the free camps were closed due to wet roads.
It rained reasonably steady all the way to Balranald so we opted for the warm showers and camp kitchen at the Balranald Caravan Park.
It rained very consistency for the night, so we were thankful to have the camp kitchen to cook in.


Recently sworn-in African National Congress (ANC) councillor, Nonhlanhla Mthembu, collapsed during the first Johannesburg council meeting on Monday, 22 August 2016. Emergency services were called to her aid and the council subsequently took a break and were informed of her passing soon afterwards. The cause of her death is still unknown.
Mthembu, who recently celebrated her 50th birthday, had been a long-standing member of the ANC, and served as a Johannesburg councillor since 2011. She had just been re-elected for another five years. Voting for executive mayor of Johannesburg was halted when she fell ill and was retrieved from the venue by paramedics.
The council marked a moment of silence in her honour and agreed to speed up proceedings. It determined to go ahead with the elections for the positions of executive mayor and chief whip on the same day, instead of separately as traditionally done. Most councillors left the venue after casting their votes in order to deal with the emotions of the day.
For the first time, these proceedings weren't marked by singing or clapping as councillors took to the stage to vote for these two positions. Kevin Wax was nominated by the DA and Solomon Mogase was nominated by the ANC for the position of chief whip, while Herman Mashaba was nominated by the DA and Parks Tau nominated by the ANC for executive mayor.
The ANC have expressed their condolences to Mthembu's family. While her cause of death is still unknown, it has emphasised that death can be very unexpected. An unexpected death not only enhances the heartbreak felt by family, but also the worry that comes with preparing the funeral. Don't let your passing be marked with increased stress and anxiety, ensure you have Funeral Cover so that, in the event of your passing, your family can rest assured that arrangements are taken care of.


Ok so, this isn't the normal type of vulnerabilities I post here (I'm mostly a webappsec guy), but well, I discovered this elevation of privileges on this product of Symantec (Altiris Deployment Solution), and it was fixed a while ago, but I hadn't the chance to post about it.
This was researched with Alex Hernandez from sybsecurity.com and from elhacker.net.
The document explaining the vulnerabilities is here.
And the exploit for the elevation of privileges is here.
This was reported to Symantec ( secure@symantec.com ), and they had a very quick and fluent communication with us, they responded fast whenever we asked for information, or had any doubts. The follow-up of this vulnerability has been tracked until today, and so the security team of Symantec is the best one we've met.
This is a personal blog.


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