We left Wells Crossing after a very peaceful night camped on the Severn River. There were five rigs in camp and we were the first to leave. Went back into Ashford to have a look at the town and it is a pity to see these small country towns dying with lots of empty shops in the main street. Went on to Inverell and had lunch at the RSM club (RSL to us Qlders) and had a great meal for $7.00. After refuelling, the dearest so far, we went on to Bingara via Delungra and Alan showed us where he had camped in the leadup to the Bingara rally, lovely spot on the Gwyder River, but it was too early to camp so we went on to Baraba and pulled into the Lions Park rest area just south of town for afternoon tea. The site was not our cup of tea for an overnight stop being right on the highway with trucks constantly going past so we opted to head for Split Rock Dam.Our adventure started when I set the GPS for the camp site and it took us down a very narrow dirt road (Allan was barely able to get his trailer through some of the cattle grids) for 11k with no sign of a dam anywhere.There was nowhere for Allan to turn around with his trailer so we had to keep going. Eventually it told us we were at our destination at a road Junction in the middle of cattle paddocks. Somebody obviously got the co-ords terribly wrong. We did however see lots of country the normal tourist would not see.
We eventually found the camp site which overlooks the almost empty dam and Allan shouted me a hot beer for happy hour, that is how we found his frig hadn't been working all day. I think we have now fixed the problem, but neither of us know exactly how, but we did have to eat all his ice-creams before they completely melted.
Happy days tomorrow as we head towards Premer.
HaHa!That's what happened to Steve and I when we were in Tassie. We ended up in the middle of someones property at a dead end before we realised the gsp had got it completely wrong.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you're having a great time.
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Tracey.