Day 47: Eulo

Slow start this morning - with no real reason to rush.
Enjoyed the hot shower
We left at 9.15am (after Ruth getting caught talking 15 mins - just as we were almost in the car).

Still seeing lots of Emus and also a few Brolgas on this drive today - in this are since we got to Quilpie we have seen much less roo population. Some of the emus wanted to cross the road in right in front of us but we spotted them in advance and slowed to let them pass.

Pretty uneventful trip - except for seeing a fox today at a roadkill carcass.
That is our first one for this trip.

One funny thing was this guy (a Victorian) towing a caravan - just stopped in the middle of the road next to where we had pulled well over to let him pass and started asking about where we had come from this morning and what was the road like??

We hit downtown Eulo about 11.am,

-- stopped for the obligatory coffee at the general store -

- and then checked into the Eulo Queen Hotel campground (out back of the hotel in a nice green grassed block of land) for tonight.

Seems the only place you can get mobile coverage in Eulo is at the General Store - as the sign indicates-"Telstra Mobile Service Here".
It should have also stated "here and only here"!!

We thought it would be fun to watch the final "State if Origin" at an outback pub. It's a nice area with good facilities (aka: hot showers) and only cost $10 for the night.

We set up, organised our lunch and then set off to walk back down to the Date farm where they make Date Wine and they also have the Artesian Mud Baths.
There was absolutely no one around the property or at the mud baths - as far as we could see. A sign on the gate just read "No Vacancy until Thursday 18th midday".
We asked back at the pub and they said that they seem to have gone away and did not tell anyone which is pretty silly as the pub is also the information centre and they have had people coming in asking to book for the mud baths and they (at the pub) had no idea that they were not available.
So today being Wednesday we are now deciding whether to hang around until lunch time tomorrow - to see if we can get in or just move on. We would be pretty disappointed to miss out on this!!

Since we were halfway out there - after we checked out the mud baths and found no one home - we walked on further out to the bridge over the Paroo River and had a bit of an explore around the banks of the river and the free camp out there.

Night before last they had quite a decent storm here and some of the area of the river side free camp is pretty sludgy still but starting to dry up. There were about 6 caravans out here.

We also wanted to go from here down to Currawinya NP - but after some discussion with locals and a family who had just came through from there (you should have seen their car and caravan - just covered in mud it was) we have decided that it is probably best left to another time - considering that the forecast for the next couple of days is for more rain in this area.

After dinner we headed into the pub to watch the decider of the "State of Origin" series. There was quite a crowd turned out for it in this little pub and it was great to see Qld the victors.