Yep, well it was supposed to be Cunnamulla, but you’ll have to wait to see why.
OK, so in yesterdays update I forgot to tell ya’s all about the road kill. The FarRider forum was a great help in preparation for this ride including advising me of the dangers certain sections of road may hold. True to form the road from Cloncurry to Barcaldine which has the nick name of “roo alley” was true to its name. I couldn’t count the amount of dead roo’s on this road and you don’t only have to dodge the bodies, carcasses but also the eagles and crows feasting on the remains. I figured out early in the morning that by hitting the horn on approach shoed most of the birds but you have to keep on the horn to keep them away as you slow down and ride on by.
So now this morning, believe it or not I actually got a bit of a sleep in, which felt awesome. Suns up, Angel’s packed and I’m ready to go. The road this morning is an extension of yesterday’s roo alley, so since yesterdays horn honking worked, I did the same thing today. Not many pics today as I had a thought in my head that I wasn’t sure was going to pan out and there really wasn’t anything much to take…..unless you wanted to see dead animals in various stages of road kill carnage.
Blackall for fuel then rolled into Tambo and liked the look of the old post office and in true Japanese tourist fashion, you got it, took a pic
Tambo post office
Next stop Augethella, which I learnt is the capital of Meat Ant Country. Now, when I saw the first sign I had no idea what Meat Ant Country was until I pulled into the servo, fuel and I pick up a sambo for later. The sign at the servo has this whopping big bull ant with Welcome to Meat Ant Country…..they look real hungry and mean, hey but I don’t think I wanna find out. I strip off a layer and change gloves and hit the road again for Charleville.
Fly on through Charleville and it’s starting to get hot. I decide to stop for my sambo in this blink and miss town called Wyandra. Now I’m sure there is more to the town than what I saw but what I experienced was great. I parked Angel, then parked my own butt under the tiny bit of shade under a bush on the ground and ate my sambo. The local shop is also the post office, servo, souvier (that’s how they spelt it) shop too. But what is even better which I didn’t notice right off was the house next door, it’s front fence is covered in bras – yep bras. I think I saw this on a travel show ages ago but here ya go, I’m seeing it in real life….amazing. The home owner raises money for breast cancer so I go into the shop and make a donation.
Wyandra everything shop
The Bra house
Only 100 kays and I’m in Cunnamulla, it’s hot and it’s way too early to be stopping. I grab my next FarChallenge pic and head for my accommodation at the Country Motor Inn.
FarChallenge pic
What a beautiful little place – the motor inn (not Cunnamulla). I’ve decided to keep moving but first I have to do the right thing by Bill & Ross at the motor inn. I explain the change in plan and pay them accordingly for the inconvenience. They are so lovely and allow me to try and book in Bourke from their own phone (unfortunately no one was answering so I just had to wing it) . If you are ever passing through Cunna, go see Ross & Bill and stay the units are the best looking modern facility in town, they’ll have cheese, bickies and some Cardboardonanay with you.
It’s about 2:30pm with 260 kays to Bourke, all going to plan I should pull in before dark (since I have made a promise that I would not travel at night). Touch base with Karl to let him know the change of plan and Miraz (a ride friend) who had left me a message about the road ahead. Well I have renamed the road between Cunna and Bourke the “Emu Rd”. I tell ya, I must’ve seen 300 emu this afternoon. Not to mention all the other animals, cows, roos, wild pig, lizards, sheep, goats and not to forget a feril cat all on this one section of road.
4:55pm and I pull into the Kidman Park Caravan Park 7 kays outta down town Bourke. Highly recommend this place , it beautiful and safe. There’s a BBQ bush dinner and bush poet from 6:30pm so I stayed there for a bit and had dinner before heading back to my cabin.
Now if you have 3 days to spare and want somewhere nice to spend it, go here (it’s only a days drive), check out what I stayed in at Kidman’s Camp
front porch of my cabin
Now check this place out and weep folks……. Everything is solid timber – trees, big chunks of them and the furniture is all carved from them.
check it out…..all solid tree
but wait, there’s more
And not to mention the view from the verandah
the view from the rocking chair….one could get used to that
Not bad for $115 for the night.
I kinda wish I could spend more than one night in this cabin but with Karl, it would be magical.
Tomorrow I head for home and am looking forward to getting there, so off to bed (a comfy one…ahhh) for a good nights sleep
