Monday 1st June Tonight we stayed at Mount Hope with a population of 7, four of whom are related. It has a pub and a community hall with toilets out the back. You can stay beside the pub with no power, but access to inside toilets and shower or at the community hall with power and outside public toilets and showers all free. We chose the community hall. Itwas okay, pretty cold (-1), but with power, the heater, electric blankets and DVDs we were set for the ni...

Tuesday 31st July Made the trip to Cunnamulla along the Mitchell Highway. This highway must have the fattest carnivorous birds in Australia because along this highway they have a smorgasbord to choose from. In many places the road was littered with dead carcasses of kangaroos, wallabies, pigs, goats, emus and other smaller animals we could not identify, maybe rabbits? In some places where mobs of kangaroos and wallabies had come to the edge of the road to eat the...