Gismo Queen and her King

Enngonia South to Mungallala

Today was all about driving. Oh, and there was a camel burger. The end.


Well, that's what it felt like anyway! We had every intention of getting going earlier but only managed to save 20 minutes on yesterday's departure time! More of the same countryside - lots of red dirt, goats, emus and kangaroos. Elevenses was in a very boring roadside stop - so boring that I made traveller tea and coffee in our KeepCups and we took them in the car. Crossing the Queensland border, the weather rising to 27C, we were feeling good. We saw advertisements for the Cunamulla Camel Burger as we approached that town so thought that would make an interesting lunch. Unfortunataely, their advertising must be so good they were flat out busy so it took half an hour to make the two burgers! They were good, but perhaps not worth that long a wait.


On the road again, heading for Charleville. We crossed a new bridge that replaced the one blown up by an exploding truck a year or two again - there's a nice memorial to the emergency services there. Once in Charleville, we had to decide whether to continue north and then go east, or go east and then head north - aiming for Emerald. We decided on the east option and wanted to get a few more kilometres under the belt to reduce tomorrow's travels - when we get to meet up with our frequent travelling companions Neill and Jude. We pulled up on the banks of Mungallala Creek as the sun set and drank our beers in the still warm evening, watching kangaroos feeding on the banks of the creek in front of us.

posted by Tracey @ 8:03 pm