Gismo Queen and her King

Day 38 - Wandilla Station to (back of) Bourke

Up early, not helped by even earlier vehicle movements - the first caravan left at 6am!! It was also very cold - now I know why we haven’t been getting up early. We were on the road by just after 8:30am, leaving in a continuous convoy of caravans down the red dusty road. Everyone was very responsible, leaving good gaps between all of us because it was quite difficult to see the van in front with the clouds of red dust. In Eulo, the little hamlet had been taken over by caravans! We had already decided not to try a d use the dump point and instead kept going to Cunnamulla. We did have to pull over to clean the windscreen though - that dust made it very hard to see. Back in Cunnamulla, we went to our friendly ladies at the Mobil (the younger one even recognised me and we swapped notes on the festival!) for diesel, then the dump  point, then water and finally elevenses at the Showgrounds. On the road again, it was down south along very straight, very boring roads. We stopped for lunch in Berringun where Neill made bubble and squeak with our leftovers.

 Then back down the road aiming for Bourke. We had heard of a good free camp on the Darling River just before Bourke so headed in there. The road was very ordinary, with lots of corrugations. The recent floods meant we couldn’t get through to the river itself so we have pulled up stumps back a bit. We managed to collect lots of firewood that the floods brought in and have had a great fire, in front of which we enjoyed our silverside dinner.

posted by Tracey @ 8:31 pm