Apart from that it's been very good. We had an interesting drive around the area, saw the Airport which is miles out of town, why, one wouldn't know.
I will post the photos at the end because when I try to add one, I loose everything & have to start all over again (I've already tried 4 times so have given up😫)
We saw a lot of Queenslander houses, the majority in pretty rough, dried out condition which is to be expected in this climate, and a very few looking lovely.
There were a lot of Emus on the roadside and we have seen, live and dead kangaroos (hundreds of roadkill) dead pigs, dead Emus, dead foxes, no dead cattle, yet!
Brian has been walking each day & on one trip saw a mural on a shop that inspired him to go to The Visitors centre and get all the info on a route that will take about 800k instead of 98k to Charleville. It's called the Natural Sciences Loop Road which will take us much more into the out Back. It says there are towns, but those towns will be a fuel pump, a general store, a camping spot and may be a population of 4! We take off tomorrow and hopefully take 2 weeks to do it staying in free campinysites along the way. Some are beside rivers (dry I expect) some on a lake and most just on red dirt.
I went shopping, one supermarket, tin soup was the same price as was yogurt but most things double to Melbourne. This was when I was glad I had a good stock in the van.
We were here 2 years ago so didn't go through the display at the Information Centre.
Today lots a new van have come in , we thought ours was big, well there are plenty that are bigger.....no, we are not changing again!
I haven't recorded in the Blog but did on Facebook so for continuity I will report it here.
On our drive from Bourke to Cunnamulla we crossed the divide between New South Wales and Victoria. We were met by Blue flashing lights and about 8 Police personnel. It was the middle of nowhere! The first young Policeman (I think he was 16!) welcomed us, asked where we were from and was charming, second one asked Brian if he had had a drink in the last 2 hours then asked him to speak into a device (not blow into it) then number 3 gave us a pamphlet on driving in The Outback and gave us tips on what to watch for etc. it was a big ✔️ for Charleville Police.
The weather is mild but thick fog in the morning, I washed today and the sun appeared this afternoon so all got dried.
Now for the promised photos.....it had better work.
I'm not game to try more than one so will send them separately.
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