White Bulls, barbed wire and sunshine!

Hello & welcome to our blog of our 2023 Australian mainland holiday.

We have a few overseas followers who follow our adventures, so we are including details of roads & locations as we know they follow us on Google Earth.

We left Augathella and headed north some 100 kilometres to Tambo. The rain was incessant. At Tambo we planned to free camp by the river but when scouting the area, I had to extricate the car and van by using 4WD. Due to the driving rain and lack of a good campsite we decided to travel another 100 kilometres north to Blackall where we managed to get a campsite at the local showgrounds. Blackall is a rural service centre for the mining and agricultural industries as well as a transport hub.

We had a night of rain and awoke to find caravans and mobile homes in the middle of mini lakes. Some vans and Mobile Homes were apparently bogged as they tried to get out. We had no trouble getting out but did put our DMax in 4WD to be safe.

We continued our journey further north through Barcaldine and onto the small town of Aramac.  The first twenty kilometres or so of road from Barcaldine was single lane and the shoulder/sides were muddy and soft and treacherous when having to partially move off when passing truck, vans and cars.

We made camp and caught up with Andrew and Lyn who are friends of ours from Huonville in Tasmania.

The next day was magnificent. No rain and blue sky. We explored the town. Aramac has a number of interesting little white bull statues about the town.

On our last day we had great weather and planned to do the Lake Dunn Sculpture Trail which is around 180 kilometres long and has quite a number of barbed wire exhibits made by a local artist. Unfortunately, due to the rain having caused road closures we could only do about 70 kilometres.

We said goodbye to Aramac and back tracked to Barcaldine. On the way back we came across a mob of cattle and some drovers.

At Barcaldine we camped at Lloyd Jones Weir.