On arrival at Walgett - called into the Information Centre - pleasant  young lady gave us advice not to freecamp there due to the possibility of trouble from Aboriginals, so we proceeded to Lightening Ridge.  There was lots of water lying alongside and over the road from the downpours.
Some of the name signs along the bumpy road were Colarenebri, Gollymongle, Pokateroo, Merrywinabone.
There were huge fields of crops growing in the red soil, and along some of the way pieces of cotton along the sides of the roads where it had been carted to a Gin to be processed.
Our caravan park had smooth quartz tailings underfoot, good to walk on and any rain would soak through.
However there was no rain just dark clouds, lightening and thunder (hence the name Lightening Ridge - da da)  !
It was very warm and humid, neither of us were keen to go into mines so we started by walking along the main street, checking out the few shops, bought some opal earings, checked out an old cottage with a dirt floor, very very primitive.
The hot sun was beating down, we found the IGA, got a few supplies and headed back to the c/park for lunch.
We were feeling the humidity and heat, went to the hotel lounge in
search of some air conditioning and there observed some of the locals.
Parked beside us was a pair of Salvation Army Rural Assistance officers who were there to counsel local landowners who might be doing it hard and to give them Supermarket and CRC vouchers.
Due to the 30+ temp and humidity we decided to move on to Bourke, maybe to return another time.

SOME OF THE MURALS AT THE PARK

OUR VAN SETUP WITH ONE OF THE MURALS

MOREE

Next morning the weather was clearing and getting brighter, went shopping at Coles, found a Toyota dealer who confirmed there was considered to be a fault with the bolts on the towbar of all Prado vehicles and in the afternoon they replaced them (on the company).
We stayed two more days there, it was a very colourful caravan park, having many murals painted along walls or fences, and it was shady, it was getting very warm, back up to 32 deg.  So we did little beside checking out the town.

WATER LYING IN THE PADDOCKS