Birdsville and more

After what seemed to be a long preparation time, we finally set off on our trip to inland Australia. We enjoyed our first morning tea with yummy Grays donuts at Euston - thanks to Dennis & Tops. It’s a lovely spot there by the beautiful Euston Club - it certainly looks like a very upmarket spot to visit. 

     

  

We lunched at Pooncarie then crossed the Darling River and hit the dirt roads - well really more of a track -we felt a little like Burke & Wills except we weren’t carting a bath tub, a cedar dining table & oak stools, gallons of rum, enema kits, numerous camels and horses amongst other things!!

        

                                   

We found Bindara - our station stay on the Darling and were able to set up in a lovely spot right by the river. Burke & Wills group actually camped at this place and dried meat for their next step along their ill fated journey. Fortunately the river is flowing but at this stage no fish!! 

           

Today we travelled to the Kinchega National Park - somewhere Darryl’s wanted to visit for ages and it was well worth the very rough road to see it. We visited the old woolshed and how we would love to step back in time and see this as a busy woolshed shearing thousands of sheep. 

         

  

We toured around the National Park and saw the relics of the old homestead - we can’t actually work out how the buildings deteriorated from when the house was abandoned in 1956 till now as now it’s only rubble. 

                             

We took the River Drive and saw several of the camp sites and saw where the paddle steamer Providence blew up and killed 5 men. That was the worst disaster on the Darling. We also saw the weir and the birds certainly knew where to fish! 

     

 

Back at camp, we’re now sitting around a lovely campfire - we’ve got a generator going as our fridge has defrosted another meal 😢. There wasn’t much sunshine today!! 

Tomorrow we head off through Broken Hill where we’ll refuel, restock the beer supplies and head off north towards Tibooburra to stay either at Silverton, Packsaddle, Milparinka or Tibooburra. Stay tuned to see where we end up. One station we wanted to stay at is closed presently as the lack of rains mean they are flat out keeping their stock alive - makes us realise how tough some people outback are going. 

Our thoughts this Anzac Day were of the various services we were missing, especially where our grandchildren were involved. Lest we forget.

We hope everyone is well and keep tuned for our further exploits. We send our love to everyone,

❌❌❌❌❌❌ from the travellers.