Day 24 - Ewingar
Given we were here for an extra day, some day trips were planned. Neill and Jude, Rhonda and Peter wanted to make the big trek to Byron Bay so they set off quite early. We had an easy morning around camp and then headed up to the house to pick up Andrew for our outing. Andrew suggested a round trip via Bonalbo including lunch at the pub, then out to some waterfalls and then back. Bonalbo is a quaint little town with a very fancy new looking police station - which we then learned was empty because they don’t have any police officers! Unfortunately the pub doesn’t do lunch on a Monday so we had to head to a cafe in the hall. It has a very limited menu but was Ok and it was nice to sit in the sun. Onwards we drove, past one waterfall that Andrew said was a bit ordinary so we kept going. After awhile we got to the turn off for the Tooloom Falls to find that the local Aboriginal people had closed it until the end of June! Disappointed, we headed for home - on a road that deteriorated terribly. After careful negotiation of rock, washouts, ruts and corners, I pulled over for a wee break - and with my limited mobile service, determined we still had 37km to go!! It took a while, I was pretty tired after battling with the steering wheel, but eventually we made it back to Tabulam because we needed fuel. And then they wouldn’t give us more than $50 worth! I negotiated up to $60 but at $1.53 a litre, that still wasn’t much! We made it back up the hill before 5pm but discovered the others were still an hour away so I lit the campfire and we had a cuppa. Upon their return, we discovered Jude had hurt her back and was moving very gingerly. She was tucked up into her van and Neill brought me the dinner ingredients so I could cook dinner, which turned out really well. We enjoyed our meal in front of the fire, Andrew and Courtney came down for our last night together.
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