Sunday 17 February 2019

February 9 - heading to the back of Bourke

It’s now a week later so where was I? 

Heading east to Bourke from Tibooburra via the Wanarring road, we took a punt that the rain had not caused any serious problems. It hadn’t thankfully. So strange but wonderful to see water along the road and in temporary ‘dams’. And tall trees. 

And then we hit Bourke. What contrasts! Kidman Camp is like an oasis after the desert. Shade, green - and two cool pools! We washed and soaked and rehydrated - it was heavenly. 




Still sandy, corrugated red roads but now it’s bordered by trees.

We drive through a little water but not enough to get in to the van.



Lots of birds so someone is very happy. These gorgeous dainty creatures, yellow-throated miners, as well as a family of maggies came calling every day. One cheeky little guy actually hopped right into the van while we were in it! and had a bit of a look round. So cute!





This was deeper and there weren’t any depth markers but we saw wheel tracks on both sides of this little ‘puddle’ so put the beast into low gear and chugged on through this car is awesome - and so is its driver. Me? Well I just hand out encouragement and directions - “this way, no that way, faster, don’t stop, keep it going. Hooray!”


Lindsay found this fresh water clam on the drying mud along the banks of the Darling. Huge!!!




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