The 451k drive to Charleville took us through very dry northwest NSW & southwest Queensland, this area is desperately dry, roadkill more & more, kangaroos, pigs a emu. We saw very few live kangaroo but lots of emu. Temperature rising, up to about 24% and noting the longer daylight hours. Full sunny days but still chilly nights and early mornings. We have booked into a Bush Camp, 2&1/2 k north of town. Friday, as we drove in we wondered what had happened....the town was shut, even the Supermarket!!! It was ‘ Show Day’! The Park is a paddock, 6 powered sites, water, dump site, no toilet it shower. There is a Camp Host that collects the $5 per person for unpowered or $10 pp for powered site. Evenings there is a campfire happy hour that allows folk to join in.
Saturday morning we went to day 2 of the Show, free entry to encourage attendance. So different to the thousands in the big cities. A lovely display of produce, flowers, baking, art, craft, and naturally a big fun fair. We saw the horses in arena and went through the birds and chooks. Beautiful leather goods for sale as appropriate for country shows.
The afternoon and ALL evening were dedicated to Harry’s wedding. I just loved it all. Brian had to watch his football on the iPad because the TV was mine on this occasion. Between the two things we went and revisited some of the sites that were familiar and went to see the site of a huge explosion that happened in 2014 where a truck carrying 53 tonnes of ammonium nitrate caught fire and crashed then exploded at 9:50pm on 5th September 2014. The blast radius was more than 1k & the effect was felt for 30 k. No one was killed but the fire engine and truck were completely demolished & a police car badly damaged. There were 9 people awarded for bravery etc after that. Angellala Bridge and also rail bridge were demolished. It made a 600 detour to the Mitchell Hwy and it was a couple of years before all was restored. All most interesting & the full story in on the Internet.
Today has been very quiet, needed a rest, enjoy reading the paper & internets reviews of The Wedding. Also Planning the next weeks travel and just enjoying life.
Sorry but I don’t know how to include photos......check Facebook for pics.
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