Once all were up we had a nice fire going again in the Shearers quarters kitchen and enjoyed a warm breakfast together.
Like Ruths's new hat!!!!
This morning we said our goodbyes - we heading off for the rest of our holidays - to "slightly unsure" destination at this stage - owing to further rains a bit south and a cold front forecast to soon hit Victoria and move up into Central NSW - bringing very cold weather and high winds.
Mark and Kerrie,with Cindy and Russ, were making their way back to Walgett today.
We headed back into Bourke - to grab some milk - and go the the National Parks and Wildlife office.
Of course whilst there we just had to boost the economy by having a coffee.
The girl at NP advise us that the road out to Gundabooka NP was fine to travel now - so we headed out on the highway (to Cobar) - turning off about 50km S onto the red dirt (Ben Lomond Rd).
Shortly after turning off (before reaching the entrance to the NP) we stopped to collect firewood - and were lucky enough to find a nice lot of "gidgee" - great firewood - as it produces very good coals and heat from small amounts of wood.
Dry Tank Campground (Gundabooka National Park) is approx 22 km from the main entrance to the park. It has picnic tables, composting toilets and generous sized camping sites easily accessible for our tvan camper.
The road in from the highway was pretty good - there were some rough spots and mucky bits - and a washout that they had carved out a sidetrack to avoid - but taking it easy we encountered no difficulties with the drive.
Dry Tank campground is a lovely spot in amongst the Mulga and we decided this would be our campsite for the next 2x nights ($6/adult/ night).
It was lunch time when we arrived - so after set up we settled into sorting lunch - and then we were visited by a couple of lovely ladies (nurses!!!) - other campers who were on for a lengthy chat.
We were getting some light drizzly rain - but it wasn't too cold - so we decided to head off with the umbrellas/raincoat for a walk from the campsite to nearby Little Mountain. It was just an easy 4.2km (return) walk through the pretty mulga woodlands to the summit of Little Mountain - with a view out to the north west escarpment of the Gundabooka Range.
We had been invited over to the nurses campsite, along with other campers, for an evening around the big campfire they were having - but it was still drizzling rain and we were really tired - so we ended up turning in for the night as soon as the dinner dishes were done.
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