Blackbraes to The Broadwater

We packed up fairly early in the morning and hit the road. We arrived in Hughenden for brunch lunch and found streets closed off due to the dinasaur festival - how cool! So Sam got to see dinasaurs everywhere and we wandered around saw some of the local aboriginal boys doing a dance and then went to the Holden cafe where we ordered fish burgers and a scoop of chips. The burgers were huge and tasted pretty good.

Then we started heading south towards Muttaburra. The road was long and straight and not much in the way of views. Just grass dirt and more grass and dirt.

We got into Muttaburra just after 3pm after stopping for a baby kangaroos we saw standing by its mother who had been killed on the side of the road. Then we turned towards The Broadwater a bush campsite about 9km outside of Muttaburra along the Thompson river.

We found a lovely site after searching along the river banks and past an old couple that looked like they had been set up for quite some time near the boat ramp. They even had a fenced off vege garden happening!

We were set up in no time, campfire going, water warming in the keg. Then we went exploring along the river banks looking out at the pelicans swooping on to float along with the current. The river was very muddy cloudy looking which is a huge contrast to the clear streams in the cape we had become accustomed to.

I cooked up a spaghetti sauce and we had it over "dinasaur necks" I'm loving using this phrase as it gets Sam munching away no problems. It was cold again but not as cold as the night before. Sam fell asleep early on and Gaz and I listened to a reading of "Catch 22" on the radio while we sat around the campfire with a couple of drinks. The story was quite good so we decided to take the radio inside and listen to it as we fell asleep. I don't even remember past my head hitting the pillow. Gaz said the radio just ran out of battery. It was a lovely way to fall asleep.