Camerons Corner Adventure

This moring, Bob takes the dogs for a drive for their comfort stop, and then we get ourselves ready to go to the qantas Museum. We arriver there just beore time, and there are a good few people reay and waiting to go inside. The doors open, and we all enture in after we have done the mandatory covid 19 sign in. There is a big space filled withbits of planes and displays of what things were like back when qantas we starting up. There are vidoes playing of people who were about and knew the founders of qantua and had some stories about them. We go out of the main area, and have a look at a plane that is outside and head over to the heritage listed hanger, which is 100 years old this year. It is very draughty in there, and in a side room there is a film playing  of the history of qantas being told by  It is truely remarkable that qantas was founded by two ww1 pilots that came home after fighting in the war, and didn't know what to do with themselves, and then decided to start a f...

This morning I take the dogs for their morning walsk and toilet needs. I have been taking the dogs for a walk to where the cementry is, and this morning I notice a fenced off area surrounding and there are three trees within this space. Walking over closer I read a little plaque, stating that this is an Indigenous cementry. I have never come across anything like this before, but not that I am near to many cementries and find it a little interesting. There are a couple of names of indigenous people buried there.      After some breakfast, we get busy packing up the camper and ute, heading on to Longreach. This is a distance of 315 kms. We have a couple of stops, the first one at Jundah, which has this amazingly large service station shop, which seems to be somewhat new. There is someone who makes proper coffee, a barister,  so we sit and have a coffee and a toasted sandwich and then head off again. We are now travelling in more of the channel country, and there are a ...

Once again, the morning is cool. But it is winter. We sleep in this morning, as Jack was a bit noisy through the early hours of the morning. I got up to him once and Bob got up to him a couple of times. I get up and take the dogs for a walk, so  they can relieve themselves.  We take a walk up town, I am wearing a beanie and fingerless gloves as I am feeling a bit cool, and grab a round of toasted sandwiches for breakfast, after some to do. The first cafe we stopped in, we looked and decided to come back, then we went up to the other one, and then we walked over the road to another place that looked like it served coffee, but it was not open. So we went back to the first place, and waited for service, and none came after about 5 mins of waiting, so we walked out and went to the second one and ate our food there.  We come back to camp and put some washing on, and wash up the dishes from last night. After the washing is done and hung out, we go for a drive back to the Cooper...

We start the day with a cold start. Bob tells me that there was ice on the windscreen this morning, but I didn't notice as i had to go to the toilet which was 300 mtrs away from where we were. I get the dogs on their leads and they can come for the walk with me to the toilets. They sniff and smell their way with me attached and relieve themselves before I get the chance to. On my way to the public ammenities, I stop and chat to our neighbours this morning as they are on the move early. I suggest he spray the tracks and pullies with some WD40, which he has done, so maybe this will help free up the issues he has with his family camper. The eldest son get to have a pat of Jack, and the dogs and I are on our way again. I get to the said desination, and tie the dogs up so I can use the ammenities, and all is good. The guys don't know how lucky they have itm when they can just go outside and pee behind a tree., it's just not the same for us women.  While I am away, Bob has starte...

We have left Cameron's Corner a day earlier that we had planned, But not before I buy some souveniers and we refuel the ute again. Our plan is to go to The Dig Tree, and into Inaminka, South Australia, and then take it as it goes through out the day.  From Cameron's Corner to the Dig tree is a 4 and half hour trip or 342kms. Our travel takes us across much corrugated dirt, and past some paddocks of water. There seems to be q fair bit of water laying around, and parts of the road have been detoured around the watery plains. The guys that were staying beside us for the last couple of days have decided to to go Noccundra for their next stop on their way to Longreach.  We are traveling along when there is a car pulled up on the other side of the road flashing it's lights, and as we get closer it is them. They apparently missed their turn, and had made it almost to Innaminka, and then turned around to find where they had missed their turn. We stopped and showed them the map we a...

This morning was a little bit chilly, and after breakfast was attended to, we talk a walk over to the Survey marker for Cameron's corner, where the three statesmeet. Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia. We had to step over the boarder to do this, as this marker is in South Australia. After we have finished taking the must have photos, we go across to the General store, and have a coffee, and then back to the camp.We spend most of the day watching Movies, as there is not a real lot to do, but we did take the dogs for a ride and let them have a bit of a run away from where the campers are. There have been three campers including us on the powered sites, and there seem to be a good few over at the unpowered area. The couple that flew in yesterday have flown out this morning.  The day has seen many cars coming and going after they get fuel, and heading off to somehwere else.  There are not as many flies here today, but it is a bit cooler, and we welcome that.  It...

Tibooburra to Camerons Corner. A distance of   kms We pack up the room, and go and have a look at the Pioneer park, where there are a few old tool and implements that were once used many years ago.Also on dispaly is a replecar to size of a  whaler boat that the surveyors in Sturts expedition carried inland as they were convinced that there was an inland sea. It is amazing to think that they would haul this boat all the way inland. Around Tibooburra there are lots of boulders, and we ask if they were volcanic, but were told, no, they beieve they are granite and formed from all the dust storms over millions of years rolling around as there is no evidence that there was any active volcano in the area.  We stop at the general store, and have a cooked breakfast, as we have a bit of time to kill. After this, we then make our way towardds Camerons corner, and where we will bestaying for the next three nights.  We have swapped the wet roads from yesterday to roads of co...

Wanarring to Tiboorburra, a distance of 234kms. Tiboorburra has a population of 134. It was nice to be listen to the symphony of bird tunes this morning, starting with the wonderful sounds of the Magpie. After a night of rain, we are a little unsure as to whether to go to Tibooburra, due to road conditions. As all the roads here are dirt/sand, and we have no way of knowing how the conditions of them are. We were talking to the older couple that came across from there yesterday and said that it had a couple of horrendus parts in it.  We are not in a hurry this morning, and the dogs are loving the space to run around in here. There was a frisbee in the yard here, and we started playing with it with Jack, and he  seems to really enjoy it. Eventually, he masters the art of catching it in air, some of the time. After a leisurely breakfast, we eventually make a decision to head on to Tiboorurra. We figured that if we stayed it could rain more and we could be stuck for longer, so we ...