Charleville Qld, May 31, 2016

Charleville Qld, May 31, 2016

Pretty much a repeat of yesterday’s travel, a 250km run from Bourke to Cunnamulla, lunch in the only cafe in town and the afternoon stint of 200km up to Charleville. Somewhere north of Bourke you cross into Queensland and immediately loose the 110km limit, back to 100km. Not that I care, I’m happy around the 100kph +10-5) mark, it’s just that nothing changes: not the road, not the land, not the speed of the people using the road... and yet one government thinks 110 is too fast and slap a 100 limit on. Actually, 20km or so over the border and it went back up to 110, and again, nothing changes.

That was almost the highlight of the trip. The real highlight and point of discussion was the carnage on the road in the form of road-kill. Roos, emus, pigs, you name it. It kept me awake weaving in and out and around the carcasses, i sure wouldn't want to actually hit one at that speed, dead or alive. I have to assume it’s trucks at night that do the damage or else the place would be littered with dead cars a well. Mind you, the emus were everywhere, and in big mobs. These things are so unpredictable you just have to be ready to take evasive action all the time.

Made it into Charleville unscathed and have settled into Bailey Bar Caravan Park. Don't ask me why its called Bailey Bar, I can only vaguely remember something about it once being a dairy or something and am a) too tired and b) too lazy to go to the office and find out. And besides, the campfire entertainment is getting started, they have a roast lamb on-a-spit for $23 that looks a lot like the aforementioned road-kill and country music, I might just sit here and play on the inter web for a while.  OMG, is that yodelling?

I just looked up our blog entry from 2013 when we were here last and laughed my head off; everything is the same, including the road-kill and with the exception of the w***** with the Christmas music blasting out isn't here [Praise the Lord] and being a Tuesday, there’s no footy match to go and watch instead.

Sadly it clouded over on the way up here so the star gazing at the info centre has been cancelled and the once free self-guided ‘secret’ tour is now a pay-as-you-go tour and having done it before, I opted out.