I left Cobar yesterday morning after the mail I was expecting from Melbourne arrived earlier than anticipated, and stopped overnight at the Emmdale Roadhouse which is 160 km from Cobar.

Along the way I stopped at a rest stop and was chatting to a road train driver who was cooking his lunch, and it seems like my timing was perfect, because he said that last week there was so much heavy rain in Cobar that the town was flooded, with water thigh deep in places and lapping the shop fronts along the main street.

My next stop after leaving the roadhouse was going to be Wilcannia, but the road train driver warned me against it saying it wasn't safe.  He said that travellers were being targeted and even road trains were now driving straight through instead of stopping overnight because of alleged stealing of loads, etc.

With that in mind, I didn't stop in Wilcannia and decided to drive straight through to Broken Hill.  I am now camped at the local racecourse overnight, but there is a big annual race meeting next weekend with lots of preparation going on, so I may have to move on tomorrow.