Linda & Pete's Travels July/August 2017 - Central QLD, Slim Dusty Towns & Lawn Hill NP

On Wednesday morning before leaving the Bourke Kidman Camp we took a walk down to the Darling River. Back in 2013 on our ‘First Big Trip’ we took a ride on the Jandra Paddlesteamer from this location. It was a great little cruise but the walk down to the river was all we wanted this time. So off we went and crossed over into QLD. At Cunnamulla we stopped for lunch and to check out the town, but mainly to take in the Cunnamulla Fella story. The Cunnamulla Fella was imortalised in song by the author/singer, Stan Coster, and the singer of the song who made it famous, Slim Dusty. Back in the 50s snd 60s when Australia was still riding on the sheep’s back to a large degree, there were many young men who worked on the numerous sheep stations. They would work from sun up to sundown, many of them as young as 15 and 16, chasing scrubbers and breaking in horses. At the end of the day they would sit around campfires on their saddles or swags yarning about the days events. The towns...

After an inevitable slow start due to having to take our daughter, Bec's car to the mechanic to fix her car door window winder that broke down the night before, we left home a bit after 9.30am on Monday the 24th July. I wanted to go back to the public weighbridge to get the vehicle and van weighed in their loaded status. It all weighed up correct, ie, the van was on its limit, not overweight but will have to work out what to do if I want to take a generator with me next time, and the vehicle was well under weight, due to the Lovell's GVM upgrade I just had done to it. Very happy. That meant that we really were not 'on the road' till about 10.30am, but what a good feeling it was. Our plan was to do a lot of kilometres till we got into new territory, however, due to a late start we only made it to Dubbo. This trip has started in a very similar vein to our 'Second Big Trip' to NT and WA as we stayed at the same place in Dubbo as we did two years ago on that t...

Finally it is time to hit the road again, and I am so excited. A lot has happened since our last blog which finished in August 2016 as we arrived home from our trip which did a circuit around south east QLD, up through the country in the middle and over to the coast and heading south.  Once we arrived home from our 2016 trip we decided we wanted to move on from our house, for reasons I won't bore you with. We found a great house and rented out the house we left. But after a few months we were concerned with how much we owed on the new house and decided to sell the old one. The old house has now sold and actually settled today. That now frees us up to travel more often. We are so blessed. We did take a short break earlier this year, just three weeks, down into Victoria to visit some lovely friends and over to the coast at Merimbula and back home. I did not bother doing a blog for just three weeks. This trip is only for four weeks but it makes the cut. So the p...