This could be a long one as I have been offline for soo long. I will try and make it short.
I went to Deniliquin after Wodonga and had another problem. with my battery charger!By the time that was fixed i ended upstaying a week.Still th Carotel at Deniliquin is over the rod from the RSL club and walking distance to town. So not too bad! I met a woman who was solo there and she was ready to move on so we decided to travel together for as long as it suited. First stop was Wentworth, to arrange bookings for the next Mildura Country Music Festival, for my friends. I decided not thhis year. Then north to Broken Hill, a place I hadn't driven to before. Had a look at various galleries etc but refrained from buying anything. We went to a club one night for dinner, took the local bus into town and got the courtesy bus home,luckily as we both one raffles! I took a meat tray and Dot took a veggie tray! tons of it> I barely managed to get it into my freezer. then it was off towards the east. first stop was just a bit east of Wilcannia at a lovely park that was fairly new. the ablutions were almost like an ensuite, free laundry, and a huge campfire every night. we cooked a cmpoven on the second night there with my lamb chops and dots veg. very good but I had more leftoveers to put into the freezer!. Then it was on to Bourke, where there was another great plaxe to camp. After looking at the old wharf on the Darling river, I took a photo for my friend Meg, of the old hospital where she was born. Then out to Kidman Camp just out of town. We went on the paddle boat for a trip up the Darling river. these sort of sidetrips are soo interesting. the guides really know their stuff. He never stopped talking for over an hour and it was all really interesting.
Onwards northwards to Cunnamulla, the country music bloke the cunnamulla fella, a lovely bronze statue in the town of the typical drover . Then out to Riverside on the Warrego River, another "bush" type caravan park complete with fabulous campfire on the river edge. Really lovely. Icy cold , had tons of clothes on, but roasting in front of the fire. happy hours have been really good at these spots. Leaving here we were heading east again along the Natural Science Loop, next stop Yowah, to investigate Yowah opal nuts! Dot knew about them as she and her family had opal site up Lightning Ridge way.Stayed there for 3 nights and had a good look around . some really interesting things. The caravan Prk had an artesian water supply, well the whole town used it. But the bathrooms were set up with baths that you had in private and filled up withvery hot rtesian water. the rooms had no ceiling, one night I was in the bath when it started raining!! luckily I had already had my long soak . Afterthat we had to stay another night as th road we planned on leaving on was dirt, and I wasn't taking any chances, we saved 140 kms by taking the gravel road, which we were advised was not too bad, but we took it over 1 hour and a half. compplete with stop for taking photos of kangaroos about 20 yards away.I now have a rattle in the motor? I didn't have before. Hope it isn't anything serious.Then it was on to Thargomindah, and Noccundra. this included a detour of 40 kms to a hotel for camping and a lovely meal. we were staying at caravn parks for power as it was soo cold at night. -2degrees average. Then we went to Quilpie to see a beautiful opal altar, lectern and font at the catholic church. Just gorgeous. then on to Charleville, where I had to wait for 3 ddays for my prescription to be ordereed in. After here dot and I parted compay as she was heading morth towards Longreach and I was heading east to get ready to fly back to WA for mums birthday next month.
I stopped at Roma, miles to visit a lovely historic village, then on to chinchilla. here I finally went out to the weir to free camp, quite a big area but each afternoon it filled up and was pretty packed by late afternoon. met some lovely people who organised campfires for happy hour, finlly the days are getting warmer and even the nights are not too bad. I have again had trouble with the motorhome, my water connecctiion needs attending to as when I put on Mains pressure, i waste a lot of water. also when I pulled up at the last stop, a place called Jondarryan I had a big crack in my bench top in the bathroom. Grr!! So I rang up where I ordered the motorhome from as it is relatively quite close. they can fit me in on Wednesday , so I drove into Maroochydore on the sunshine coast and here I am!Lots more to tell you but this has brought you all up to daate with my life at the moment. This is also the first tme I have been able to get on line with this computer, as my tablet has died with a vengeance. So again I don'tknow when I will be online gain but it will be as soon as I can. hope you are all keeping well, and life is good to you. Haven't the Commonwealth games been good? Thoroughly enjoying the tv coverage, but of course I don't sleep much so that helps. as you may be able to tell from the timing of me sending this!
love Vicki
