Journey in a Journey

16th July 2018 We stayed at the Warrego Riverside Tourist Park last night.  Beautiful caravan park.  Nice big clean showers with lots of hot water.  Sensational.  They have a camp fire going and a man singing and best of all power so we had heat.  Needless to say we slept beautifully.  This morning we went into town to see the Cunnamulla fella statue that was made famous in Slim Dusty's song. After wandering around town and surviving 3 days without phone reception or internet we decided we needed to get a Telstra sim card and connect with the world again.  We continued 200 kms up the road to Charleville and booked into the Bush Camp $5 per person (self contained vans only) .  We booked into the Cosmos Center Observatory for tonights stargazing and explored the town. As this is the outback it is very dry so in the 1902 drought an experiment was carried out in Charleville to try using a Vortex Rainmaking Gun charged with gunpowder and blasted into the sky. 

15th July 2018 This morning it was freezing.  Frost covered the car so we decided to get moving and warm up in the car and have breaky up the road.  In the car we discovered it was -2 no wonder we were cold.  An hour up the road and we were in Cobar.  The sun was shining and we stopped and enjoyed breaky outside in the warm sun. We went to see the working mine but unfortunately as it was Sunday we didn't witness the mining trucks going down into the mine.  As you can see it is a huge mine and the trucks enter the mine in the small entrance hole you can see at the bottom left of the image. We continued on to Bourke and stopped at the Back of Bourke Centre.  Moving on again we made it into Queensland and stopped for the night at Cunnamulla.                                                                    

 14th July 2018 Left Melbourne this morning.  It was cold and foggy and remained this way all morning and well into the afternoon.  Our first stop was to the Big Strawberry for lunch.  Still cold and still foggy.  Finally the fog broke as we started driving on The Kidman Way. We stopped for afternoon tea at Griffith and stretched our legs by exploring the rock caves used by an Italian Hermit that lived in the area.  He used the large sandstone boulders as a home and also created his own gardens and church on the hill looking over Griffith.  We continued on and free camped the night at Mt. Hope.