Bourke...a small town in cental NSW. Not a lot to say really; the shops close at approximately 5:00 pm, and then it becomes a ghost town. Not only that, they pull down these metal shutters to protect the windows; obviously they have had some problems in the past with unrulely behaviour by the locals. Still, we did have a relaxing couple of days there. We even visited a small pub at the back of Bourke called 'Northy' (built 1893). Quite a bit of history there as well with old paddle steamers and barges, full of cargo and passengers, travelling up and down the mighty Darling River under the old Gateway bridge to Bourke in a bygone era.
