22 10.07

WILCANNIA ( west of there anyway)

We were up and gone by 0600 which was good as it was quite hot later in the mid 30’s, saw lots of kangaroo’s and emu’s and then around Cobar hundreds of wild goats. The country from Wyandra down past Cunnamulla is very flat and very very dry, we stopped at Cunnamulla which is on the banks of the Warrego River and is the home of the “Cunnamulla Fella”, a bronze statue in the main part of town.”He” was made famous by Slim Dusty’s song of the same name (I think). This is a really nice town with lots of green lawns and gardens which is in contrast to the surrounding countryside. The railway terminates there and the station is one of three in NSW with a closed roof.

Further south we crossed the border at Barringun where I found another cache, it was quite an easy one but there was a red herring as well as someone had left a porno magazine in the same place which was dispatched into the bin nearby. Bit disappointing as this is a pastime enjoyed by children and women folk. I was pleased to find this one as I was the second to find it and had been beaten by only one day by someone else, rather amazing due to its remote location.

We stopped for lunch at Bourke which has the feel of Wilcannia about it with broken windows and boarded up buildings. Down by the river there were a group of people gathered and admiring a gold cup which we found out next day on the news was the Melbourne Cup which is touring the west.

As it was very hot and we didn’t want to stop too early we pushed on and stopped at a truck stop west of Wilcannia after a 13 hour day. It was still in the mid 30’s and was deadly still with no air at all, but this changed at about 2300 when it blew up a gale and blew dust everywhere, we had a blanket on by morning.