Not a bad camp except for the flies, flies, flies. Calling into Barkly Homestead to take some
photos and then onto 3 ways where we meet up with The Stuart Highway. Picked up a litre of milk at The Barkly
Homestead for $4.20 OMG and the diesel was $2.09 a liitre, very, very
expensive. Thank goodness we didn’t need
fuel. Fuelled up at 3 ways and fuel was
$1.95 a litre, still expensive but that’s just the way it is – we are a long
way from anything so can’t complain. I managed
to do a stint of driving to give Barry a break today. Drove from Frewena Rest Area into 3 ways
which is approx. 140kms. Now onto Renner
Springs (136kms) for our lunch break.
Have spotted smoke off in the distance indicating a fire but don’t think
it will worry us. 11.30am and 30 degrees
so another hot one. Countryside has
changed once again, a lot of the streams actually have water in them and some
of them look very inviting and a lot different to Western QLD. Once again
driving through red rocky outcrops with lots of small, very green trees. Road is still very quiet so looks like we may
have beaten the hoards from south.
Called into the historic township of Newcastle Waters, which is now a
bit of a ghost town. Under the lovely
shady trees at the old corrugated iron church we managed to find a tap to the
water tank and yippppeeee was able to put my head under to wash my hair……bliss. Maree put her bathers on and managed to have
a proper “Tub”. There were some
Aboriginies swimming and fishing in the water just before we arrived into
Newcastle Waters. They were saying that the
water will be all gone in 2 weeks. Now it is on to Daly Waters for the night
where we have managed to find another great free camp. Called into the Daly Waters Pub for a nice
cold ale and now it is time to cook a chicken roast for dinner.
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