Cunnamulla

Well after 2 days of travelling here we are in Queensland set up beside the lovely Warrego River at Cunnamulla. It's  sunny and conditions are perfect. We hear that it's a great fishing spot although we haven't got the rods out yet.This is actually a sort of caravan park with an amenity block you wouldn't believe as it's just lovely - spacious and brand new - but here in our unpowered section we could be miles from everyone. 

             

 

The travelling has been easy with good roads and not much traffic. We are surprised the country is so good - it's not at all desert like we'd  imagined. The road kills on the roads are so plentiful and you certainly wouldn't want to drive at night.  The number of feral goats along the roadside from Hillston to Cobar were amazing - as we've come further north there has been less. We do wish we had taken a photo of the feral goat depot we passed!! 

            

Our first night at the Cobar caravan park was good except Cobar people don't seem to sleep as we heard vehicles all night - and their dogs bark all night too. We ran into Andrew Haig who used to live in Murrabit - he was on his motor cycle and heading to Cape York too - but he was travelling a little lighter than us!  He came across and joined us at our campfire. 

We had lunch at Bourke and what an interesting place! There were lots of very nice picnic areas and we enjoyed our picnic lunch by the Darling River. Darryl was so excited to see a car wash place he had to do a U turn and give the car and camper a squirt to get rid of that Moulamein Road mud! 

        

This is the wharf at Bourke - can you believe paddle steamers used to come all this way up from Wentworth and South Australia?  

        

Yesterday we travelled further than we expected and today to even it up we travelled not as far as we'd originally thought. ( we had thought we'd get to Charleville tonight but that's another 200km away!) But  we have to remind ourselves it's not a race and we are very happy with this camp spot. 

It was good to pass into Queensland and we had some laughs trying to set up the cameras to automatically take a photo - but we succeeded to get us 4 by the sign.

          

It's got warmer as we've headed north and think tomorrow we'll shed our thick winter clothes and don T shirts and thongs! The mornings are chilly but not frosty and the sunshine warms things up quickly. 

We have apostle birds squeaking all around us which us a reminder of camping at Silverton - hope they aren't too pesky. 

Our touring partners are lovely company - except Darryl is so shitty with Dennis as his fuel consumption is much better than ours - how he wished he'd borrowed Josh's Ranger!! Dennis will end up having much more beer money by the end of the trip!! 

So our travels have started really well and we have so much to look forward to. Hope everyone in the cold south are well and we do think of you all in your winter clothes! 

Lots of love to everyone from us and Greenwoods! 

Xxxxxxxx