Outback Adventure 2019 Day 24 Coonamble - Gilgandra - Dunedoo- Home An early start today to make the final leg home. There were a lot of kangaroos about this morning and more emus about too . In all our driving we’ve never seen as many emus as we have on this trip - they’ve been everywhere. It was cows though on the road that we had to stop for - a number of farmers driving their herds. We stopped at Dunedoo to get some fresh bread from the bakery and ...

Outback Adventure 2019 Day 23 Lightning Ridge - Walgett - Coonamble Today was spent exploring the town of Lightning Ridge. We drove the Yellow and Red Car door tours which take you to some of the local attractions and some of the more eccentric parts of the town. We drove past mine sites, homes that have been built out of scrap materials and bottles, weird castles and even the huge open cut pits that suddenly appear out of no where. After lunch we returned t...

Outback Adventure 2019 Day 22 Morven - Mungallella - Mitchell - St George - Nundigilly Pub - Hebel - Lightning Ridge Another early start today so that we could get on the road and further down into NSW. On the road at 7.45am ! We drove by Mungallella 40kms from where we stopped at Morven which has a great free camp that I would have liked to have stopped at had we been able to last night- oh well next time. We put on some fuel in Mitchell and confirmed that ...

Outback Adventure 2019 Day 21 Longreach - Ilfracombe - Barcaldine - Blackall - Tambo - Augathella - Morven ANZAC Day in the Outback. I’ve never seen an ANZAC Day commemoration in the bush other than on TV. It was good to get another perspective on it rather than only from the ‘big smoke’. Most of the town of Longreach and surrounds must have turned out as well as it was packed. Great to see. The March wound along the main drag before finishing at the Mem...

Outback Adventure 2019 Day 20 McKinlay - Kynuna - Winton - Longreach The Brolgas did dance for our arrival into Longreach this afternoon - but first we were greeted by the 10 or so roosters that call tonight’s campsite home! We did get inundated with what we discovered to be Gidgee bugs last night at McKinlay. They came out in their thousands! Attracted by the lights we were invaded by them! All the recent rain from the ex cyclone that drenched these parts ...