Bruce this is just a quick final session which you may get a chance to read before we arrive - later I will spread it out - but this is just a short quick fix SATURDAY Blue skies with a fresh breeze in the morning. We have one of those peaceful days, BBQ lunch with Daphne and Ogdens. Mal gives the car a wash off. We have a quiet evening in and as most perfect days go there is nothing to dramatise - just being alive was enough. SUNDAY This is father's d...

FRIDAY 2/09/16 We motored along through light showers and clear patches as we approached Augathella. We had left prior to breakfast as the pre rain wind gusts were threatening and so Augathella was breakfast. We drove down through town and noticed a couple waiting to cross the road up ahead, Mal slowed but they did not take the opportunity to cross so mal drove past and they gave us a cheery smile. We parked up in the free camp area by the levee to mak...

THURSDAY There was some light rain in the morning as we nailed down some domestic duties. Gidge had caught the school bus back into Charleville and Cameron had tasks to do around the property. Bronk and another young man came over mid morning and we left as the boys were making themselves lunch. Bronk told us of a back road into Charleville where a Brolga had two eggs on a nest. We found the Brolga and Nest but the bird flew off so Sue did not manage to g...

TUESDAY A red sunrise after a calm night, but by 8.30am the wind is blowing strongly from the West and the heavens are clouded over - the rain is coming. We head into a Northerly wind and then turn East and buffet our way towards Thargomindah. The cloud cover is patchy and shafts of light dance on the raw escarpments and then as the heavens shift their allegiances, the warms earth colours retreat to cooler greys. Wild flowers decorate the road sides an...

SATURDAY 27th August 2016 The day is fine and we are feeling good, why not take the road via Cordilla Downs and then back up to Windorah. The road junction turns us to the South and we glide along a white gravel road./ To the West and later to the East two lakes bask and stretch out lazily in the winter sun. The road gets a bit rougher as we head towards the South Australian border. We cross the border at a small creek crossing with a firm gravel bottom ...