Having driven the Mallee Highway through this town on many, many ocassions over recent months I have had to look wishfully in the direction of this mural. I'm afraid passengers just don't understand the importance of being delayed so the driver can find a cache.

I didn't have passengers to worry about today. In fact, the drive was 690km without any passengers. Any there's enough fat in the timetable that I can stop for a couple of minutes here and there. I wasted too long chasing the compass needle around and around in the bush at Ouyen then had to rush to find a cache in Underbool before returning to Manang for this mural.

The closest I could get without going through the 3 minute "park the bus" routine was across the road.