We were on the road fairly early and headed in the general direction of Charleville. We had run out of gas overnight and had had to use our emergency stove to make coffee in the morning. So we stopped at the first town Barcaldine to fill the gas bottles. We stopped at a caravan park that did refills and the guy came out to assist. He was lovely. He ran out of gas halfway through filling the first bottle and then wouldn't charge us at all! The town looked really pretty to. It seems that all the country towns out here are looked after. It shows some sort of pride for the town by the locals. We kept driving and stopped in the next biggish town Blackall where we bought pies from the bakery. Again a very pretty town, neat, tidy and looked after.
Then we stopped in Tambo for lunch around 1pm. We stopped at this town on our trip in 2011. A lovely RV friendly rest area with a man made lake. Gaz and Sam played on the grass while I made a coffee and sandwiches.
We hit the road again and headed in the direction of Charleville. We kept seeing Dare ice coffee bottles along the side of the road. It was freshly mown so we were trying to decide if the lawn mower man loved dare ice coffees and was a litter bug of if a truck carrying dare ice coffee might have been losing its load bit by bit.
As we got closer to Charleville we started looking for a place to camp and spotted a dirt track off to the left about 10km north of Charleville. We drove along the track and found it led to a river there were no good spots right near the river but some good flat spots just up on the grassy area do we picked a spot and set up. Again a perfect spot, great sunset!
The weather forecast was for frosts in the morning and although it wasn't as cold as the night before we again decided to snuggle up and watch a movie. Dusk til dawn.
We woke to a frost and decided to take the time to have a bacon and egg breakfast before hitting the road.
Destination NSW!
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