Charleville


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.  The hope was that the blast would change the atmospheric pressure and create rain.  It failed.

















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