Day 9
Monday 03 September 2012
Day 9 Windorah - Thylungra - Quilpie - Toompine - Eulo - Cunnamulla - Barringun - Bourke
- Cobar - Euabalong 1096
kms
Tar sealed road all the way from here to
home, except for a short 20 km stretch, south of Toompine.
Although it was a good distance to travel
today, it was uneventful, except at Cunnamulla when we stopped
for a refuel, it was found that Cookie 1's trailer's A-frame was
severely fractured due to metal fatigue. It was tied up with timber
and twine and we carried on.
At the Queensland - NSW border town of Barringun,
at the roadhouse, we ran into an 85 year old woman who owned the
pub across the road, which was closed. After a bit of talking we
found she had come from Junee and knew a lot of the people and
our history, so she opened the pub for beers.
The basic facilities at the roadhouse sufficed
for a quick refreshing, and a feed.
We carried on through Bourke and Cobar and
arrived at Euabalong where we camped on the Lochlan River.
At Euabalong Benjamin welded Cookie 1's trailer.
Meanwhile, Ron G and Moira awoke early, and
the very first vehicle from the south was the manager of Clifton
Hills Station, 52 km southward.
Each year after the Birdsville Races he and his staff travel the Birdville track and rescue broken down vehicles.
After a bit of battering, he disappeared
with the three dud wheels, and returned two hours later.
One of the tyres was of the wrong size, so
it was decided to go south to Clifton Hills Station to have
it changed.
There an email was sent to both Kylie and
Jemima, with the hope this information would be relayed to us,
as both Nelly's and Brad's phones were in Ron's bus.
Neither email did the job, as Kylie was in Girgarre celebrating
her father's wedding, and apparently Jemima did not read her emails.
After a fill of soda water from the station
bore, and a final check of the tyre pressures, they were ready
to go. By now it was afternoon, and as catching up with us was
now impossible, and the worst of the Birdsville Track was behind
them, it was decided to continue south to go through Maree, Peterborough,
Renmark, and along the Sturt Highway through Mildura, Hay, and
Narrandera, and onto Junee.
Ron drove through the night, while Moira slept
in the bed like a baby, but by 4 am at the South Australia - Victoria
border just past Renmark, he decided to have a short sleep.
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