Back O'Bourke and the Outback Show

I've heard it said that 'The Outback' starts a few kilometres west of wherever you happen to be in New South Wales. When you're in Bourke though, you can state quite authoritatively that you're officially on the edge of the outback. After all, everywhere west of there (and north probably) is 'back of Bourke'.

To make it even more official, there's a Back O'Bourke Exhibition Centre, which has lots of worthy and informative exhibits. It's also the location of a terrific little 'Outback Show' every day, which really shouldn't be missed.

Horseman and animal-wrangler Luke Thomas runs the performance, with Karen Hindley (introduced as his 'mail order bride', Tatiana). And they do a very fine job of entertaining the tourists with their talking camel, their bullocks, sheepdogs  and horses. Plus some rather magnificent and silly Aussie outback humour. Wonderful stuff!