It is Wednesday and we are in Hervey Bay

Rainforest fungi at Bunya

Well the travels have been enjoyable! - but some of the weather has been lousy.
The two top photographs below were taken at Bouke - the Darling has plenty of water at the moment!









It was most pleasant to camp at St George and walk along the river and then head north again.






We visited both Crows Nest and Bunya National Parks and it was pretty cold and damp at times. We have, as usual, been lost on many occasions, including on the final leg north where we became misplaced in the suburbs of Hervey Bay. But that's life for the traveller. Lost is good.







The red knecked wallabies at Bunya were a delight to watch - this little fellow was just out of the pouch and he had very wobbly legs at first - he turned into a maniac shortly after and raced around in circles.














My main gripe has been that many larger towns are very poorly signposted and it is near impossible at times to find parking for vehicles with trailers attached. We have decided that from now on we will only visit small towns and they can have our business!
We are heading for home as we have a possible buyer for the Aussie Swag.

Lake Cargelligo, Nyngan, Gundabooka National Park, Bourke and into Queensland

A day on the farm - bikes, Auntie Col, Uncle Kev, cousin Sharon, cousin David plus assorted smaller people and other family members. I enjoyed taking these pictures of the old truck, the Holden and the bike.

We overnighted at Nyngan and ate in the local RSL Club. There were galahs (the flying kind) all around Nyngan - there is plentiful grass seed and they have obviously bred up in numbers. You could never say that they are quiet birds.




From Nyngan we headed to Gundabooka National Park, 50 kilometres south of Bourke. This National Park is largely mulga and we enjoyed some lovely short walks through the landscape and met up with Michael and Marea. This is Stone Country and the Aborigines lived in this area for thousands of years. We were privileged to be able to see some of their rock art which shows them dancing and hunting.






We took a side trip on the dirt to visit the Geographical centre of NSW and have decided that we should now visit the centre of all Australian states. We have already been to the geographical centre of Tasmania so we only have 5 to go!









We headed towards Cunnamulla and then onwards to St George in Quensland. The wildlife that we have seen has been great - we have spent lots of time taking photos of birds and water - along with the very numerou emus.


More pictures to come tomorrow!!!!!!

Firsts

Before we could actually pack the KK we had to learn all about putting it up - there are lots of little things to do and the order is important. Here The Pirate King reads the list of instruction before we erected it for the first time. The Engineer's job was to push the button!

Then we packed and set off. Our first night was spent at Forbes in sub zero temperatures and then we headed for Lake Cargelligo.
Photos
1. At Forbes
2. Leaving home
3. The Engineer pushes the button
4. The Pirate King reads the instructions

We spent a wonderful few days at the Lake visiting many family members and celebrating Kevin's birthday at the site of the old family farm where Kevin had spent his childhood. The countryside is so green at the moment and it is hard to imagine that just such a short time ago the Lake was empty and the land was bare.

The first trip in the KK

KK is the Kimberley Karavan - it is poised and ready to go (almost)on it's trial run. The weather is atrocious - the wind is blowing and the temperature is falling. My centrally heated house sounds very attractive....but adventure awaits. Sometimes I think it could await a little more patiently. Roads out west are closed and the anticipated trip up The Bore Track may be cancelled.
This photo shows the KK being brought to its new house - we picked it up in Melbourne.