Kimberley trip 2015 - Winton to Longreach to just before Blackall

We left Winton fairly early and proceeded to Longreach, approximately 200km away.  We were going to stay in the caravan park near the Qantas museum so we could have a bit of a relax and take out time at the museum but when we pulled up at 10.15am to find they wanted to charge is $34 for an un  powered site we decided to just keep going.

We stopped at the museum and found the next tour was at 11am. It cost $60 per adult and $40 pet child. I decided to let Gaz and Sam do the tour whilst I went for a walk into town.

Sam loved his visit to the museum, he remembered parts from his last visit when he was almost 3. We bought him a 747 to remember this trip.

I walked into town along the botanical Walkway, it was a nice walk. I got to the clock tower where there were hundreds of white cockatoo on the trees. I remember Longreach for this last time. I just wandered around town window shopping and waited for the boys to finish their tour.

We left Longreach around 2pm and made the decision to look for a camp spot from 4.30pm. About 10km north of Blackall w e pulled off the road, drove across a paddock to a clump of trees and set up camp. There were no fences and we drove across what could have been a dried up river bed or dam. We found a nice clear flat area in the middle of the trees, it was lovely.

A fire was lit, sausages potatoes and salad for dinner and a bottle of red. The stars were out and bright so we did a bit of star gazing and went to bed.

Had a bit of a home truth discussion so it put a bit of a downer on the night for me. But it was a good campsite.

Woke up this morning with a red wine headache still feeling a little down. Made poached eggs for breakfast, packed up nice and efficiently. Its colder now. We have broken out the cold weather gear. Now wearing socks and boots, long pants and the jackets are out for after dark and first thing in the morning. Logged in to Facebook this morning and saw it had snowed again in Oberon. Brrrrrrr. Not sure if we have any firewood left at home for when we get back!