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20200603  After a long chat with our new neighbors last night, Gav gave Des directions to the water holes, just take the road up there to the left said Gav, but isn't that a dirt road, said Des, no it's bitumen all the way to Eromanga, so we actually did an extra 300ks when we could have cut straight through, opps, someones not happy. Des decided to head back to Eromanga and try his luck as it's only 80 ks back, once in town we take advantage of the free showers and while I blog Des goes in search of the water hole. Des stopped while I snapped some photos of the old Falcon abandoned in the middle of nowhere, the item sticking out of the motor is actually an old canoe. 30-06-2020 We camped around a water hole for the night after moving a couple of times hopping to get some yabbies,  Des is up early Checking his pots and it was such a lovely morning I grabbed my trusty camera for some shoots. The view of our camp overlooking the dug out, 80 ks back and no yabbies but its so q

20200620 After 130ks we arrive in the town of Thargomindah, sitting on the Bulloo River, this town came to life in the the 1870s servicing the stations at Bulloo Downs and Durham Downs then later it became an important stopover for carriers taking wool from Queensland to the steamers which traveled down the Darling River from Bourke to south Australia. The Outback Town of Thargomindah The wide main street takes you back in time as the image comes to mind of a team of bullock pulling it's load through the town.   Leahy House (1885) was made of mud brick and was first owned by John & Patrick Leahy The original Post Office opened in 1870 but was destroyed by storm in 1877 then rebuilt in 1881. I found this old relic in someones yard, now that would be a huge project doing that baby up The Old Jail cells were constructed in 1930 of cypress pine with a galvanised iron roof and lined with hardwood. These two characters put on a display of time’s gone by as the police man reprimands h

20200623 On our way to Quilpie and we pass three Brolgas paddling around in the creek and once again I miss a great flyby shoot of one my favorite birds, shit, bugger, bum.   Camping at the Bulloo river for the night so we can book into the Channel Country Tourist Park early the next morning to do some much needed washing. We pull into the park and Des goes to pay and when he says his name, a head pops up and says, I know that name, as Ken who once lived in Cleveland comes out. Ken use to play in a band around Cleveland and knows Micky Chapman, Neil Price and many others, at first Des couldn't remember him but as the night rolled on the memories came seeping back. It's such a small world, the people you run into on the road. Ken lights the fire while Des chats to Lew a lovely chap who told us because he travels on his own, no one talks to him, arr that's so said. He normally only has two beers but as he was having a good old chin wag he stayed for one more.  I cooked dinner

20200623 Arriving in Eromanga the town that has the claim to fame of being the 'furthest town from the sea' in Australian, but the latest claim to fame is the paeontological discovery of Australia's largest dinosaurs on a property near Eromanga.  The towns name goes back as far as around 1860 and is thought to have come from an aboriginal word that means"hot gale plain" or "windy plains". The Knot-o-saurus' sculptures, was constructed from over one kilometre of aluminium, features one large and two baby dinosaurs, modelled on the Sauropod. Sauropod, is a very large quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck and tail, small head, and massive limbs. There are certainly getting their point across, with only the truckies given access into Queensland. The Royal Hotel was built in 1885 and is one of the town's original buildings and was once a Cobb & Co staging post. The bar inside the Royal Hotel, she's pretty bare these days. Les Cazne