It was so terribly dry and except for the irrigated areas near Warwick, not a blade of grass was to be seen. Poor Stanthorpe has big signs up about strict water restrictions so the drought sure is still prevalent.
We crossed into NSW just and headed to Tenterfield where we’d hoped to visit the Tenterfield Saddler museum - however, it wasn’t open so we just peaked in the windows and even saw Peter Allen’s shoes!
We had lunch there and continued to Glen Innes where we then headed west towards Inverell. As we like small out of the way places, we chose to go to this quaint place called Tingah. Of course, I selected the back way to travel and after a couple of mm of rain, the gravel road was quite messy and the very clean cars and vans were clean no longer!!
Tingah is like stepping back in time - it’s an old tin mining town - the last mine closed in 1983 and I think time has stood still since then!! As we approached the town, we could see evidence of a bushfire and saw a couple of houses destroyed. In all, 13 houses were lost in this February bushfire - that we knew nothing about.
The campground was just what we like - casual, able to have a campfire and leave our cars hooked up. The only downfall was a few light showers that kept us scuttling under the annexes.
Inverell seems to be such a lovely old town and we must go back to explore it further. I had a brainwave that we head to Moree then Walgett as we’d hoped to see water in the Barwon and Darling Rivers.
At morning tea in Moree a hasty decision was made to part ways as Dennis’s Aunty passed away Friday and they are anxious to get home - whereas we were happy to be rambling along with no strict deadline to be home!
So now we are by ourselves in Brewarrina and Dennis and Tops are a long way down the Newel Highway at Peake Hill.
We saw dry conditions all the way to here - we had thought that April rains may have reached further east - but they didn’t.
At Walgett, we saw the Barwon river with some water in it - plus we saw the remains of the IGA store burnt last week. What a shame to see this as it was their only supermarket.
Here at Brewarrina we saw the Barwon river behind the weir - but below that there’s nothing so we now wonder what we’ll see at Bourke, Louth, Tilpa and Wilcannia.
So it’s a bit strange to be sitting by our fire by ourselves - only a couple of days ago we had lots of company and some different things to burn!! Ricky was cleaning out his shed and had this stool to burn!
We’ll head down to Bourke then Wilcannia then probably head for home from there whereas Dennis and Tops will probably get home tomorrow. So until what will probably be the last blog for this trip, we sign off ❌❌❌ ❌ from Darryl & Marg and our far away fellow travellers Dennis & Tops
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