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Day Seven. Left Cunnamulla around 0845, easy 4.5 hour trip hit snag at Charleville with flat tyre set us back around 1.5 hours after disconnecting and reconnecting van accessing the spare changing tyre and rest after, would have been longer but for the help of Ian and Maxine all the way from Moulamien who stopped…

Day Six Rest day, quick look at Cunnamulla, visited the Robbers tree  so called after Joseph Wells robbed the National Bank in 1880. Wells accidentally injured a storekeeper in a struggle to escape was unable to mount his horse and ran into the bush, where a dog tracked his scent to the base of the…

Day Five Set off at 08.30 took the long route via St George as  amount of water around made the Bollon short cut a bit dodgy. Straight forward run arrived in Cunnamulla around 15.00, set up camp at Warrego Riverside  tourist park. Went down to. happy hour around the campfire where entertained by part owner…

Day four Yellow car door tour with Chambers of the Black Hand the highlight.This is a 100 year old mine in which Ron Canlin has carved out over 700 sculptures from the biblical,political, theatrical and historical, anything really. Toured at our own leisure taking many photos, an enjoyable hour and a half. After lunch  down…

Day Three Toured around town John Murray gallery was worth a look, paintings with strong outback flavour crisp and clear you do not have to guess what the artist is thinking, framed limited edition prints $400  to $700  murals up to $16.000 I have put purchasing one of his smaller works on my bucket list.…

Headed off at 0830 straight up the Newell highway to Gilgandra, pulled in for fuel and ran into the recently retired Bev. Turned left onto the Castlereagh highway which was more like rodeo drive even though its sealed. Quick lunch break at Walgett which looks like a good place to drive through. Arrived at Lightning…

Day One Straightforward run to Parkes, countryside very wet large areas underwater    

Day 17 Back to the West McDonnells first stop Ormiston Gorge and a 2 1/2 hour walk up to the lookout then down to gorge floor and back to car park. This was the most impressive of the gorges and our most enjoyable walk. Next stop Glen Helen gorge, a 10 minute walk from the…

Day 16 Off to Hermannsburg an aboriginal community set up as a Lutheran mission set up in the late 19th century. The community now surrounds the original mission which has been preserved as an historic precinct. World renowned artist Albert Namatjita attended he school of aboriginal art. (google Namatjira – worthwhile artistically,culturally and historically). From Hermannsburg we backtracked to  Ellery Creek big…

Day14  Took the short cut to Alice via the Ernest Giles road 100 is of which around 40 was severely corrugated twice as bad as the worst of the Oodnadatta track,did not save any time but was more interesting than backtracking,also,saw Henbury meteorite crater  site ,measures 157 metres a cross and  was the result of…