Gismo Queen and her King

Birdsville to somewhere on Cordillo Downs Station

A travelling day today. Thankfully, so many of the Bash travellers left yesterday so although there were quite a few cars on the initial section of our road today, it was a lot easier to travel. Neill got up early to go to the bakery for our fresh bread - after I did the other day. We didn't even hear him, although unlike me driving, he walked. However, we discovered later that he found - together with several other people there at the same time - that th bakery was shut today! Which surprised us all! They had to close early yesterday because they ran out of flour but we heard they had a new delivery so we assumed they would be up and running today. Alas, no. We hit the road at 10am and did about 60km on dusty roads with many other vehicles out of Birdsville. As we stopped for morning tea, the cars were still going past us. On the road again, it was another 60km before we turned off onto the Cordillo Downs Road. Here, the road was better and the traffic was less so we did another 40km before we hit the South Australia border. We stopped here for lunch. As far as border crossings go, it was one of the less inspiring! The road (that we were on) approaching the border is little more than a track. We were hoping to push on to Cordillo Downs station (homestead) but after another 60km with a road of varying condition, and crossing a couple of creek crossings with quite substantial riverways, we pulled off the road at another creek and set up camp. It was a beautiful afternoon in the sun, we soon had a campfire going, shorts on, beers being drunk as we watched an amazing sunset. Another beautiful dinner around the fire as we appreciate the simple beauty of being able to do things just like this.

posted by Tracey @ 7:40 pm