@sister_ratched@toot.community
Post #4370234
2026-08-04 07:34 UTC
Sitting at the Lightning Ridge sunset lookout. I was here in the early 60s, don't remember much but I remember the place was just a buncha dirt roads with humpies and mullock heaps; we'd driven on dirt roads in the rain to get here, sliding all over the slippery black soil plains. It's a very different town now...
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@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone 2026-08-04 08:29
@sister_ratched@toot.community we went to LBR* in the 70s, family hol, dad driving mum & we three kids, in our vw microbus. shocking wet weather, dirt/clay road there reduced to a super slippery slide. bus' tyres continually clogging with the super sticky yet slippery mud, so we kept sliding off the road. repeated outings of dad & kids to push push push while mum did the steering n pedals thing... rinse n repeat repeat repeat. oddly i have almost no recollections of LR itself, but the drive there is indelibly imprinted *ever after, dad never says "lightning ridge", but always "lightning bloody ridge" 😆 #straya