Brewarrina to Wilcannia

 

Wednesday 17 August 2022

Day 3
Brewarrina to Wilcannia

At Kinchela Rest Area we had the whole place to ourselves and the traffic during the night was not intrusive. It helped that we could park right at the back on a level gravel patch.  I took some pictures and loved the red soil, the essence of the Australian outback I would say.  The sunset was worth a picture as well.

Before we knew it, we were on our way to Cobar, where Kevin wanted to stop at the Great Cobar Museum.  We didn’t have internet or phone coverage at the rest area and on the road only sporadically, therefore we had initially missed two calls from the nursing home where Eon (Kevin’s brother-in-law) was at Malanda.  He had passed away early in the morning. When we did have coverage there was of course some time spent on the phone with family members and friends.  To keep a long story short, all is taken care of and we keep going as we had planned.

By the end of the morning, we arrived at Cobar and visited the museum.  We picked up information about quarantine restrictions into South Australia, visited the dump point, took on fresh water and had lunch. Then we were on our way again, this time into the direction of Wilcannia (after a fuel stop).

The rest of the day was not very eventful.  We just want to get to WA in time for the rally on the 29^th and will give ourselves more time for sightseeing and relaxing after the rally.

Emmdale Roadhouse

MacCullochs Rest Area

It’s a long stretch to Wilcannia, with a quick stop for afternoon tea at Emmdale Roadhouse (#1005 - 31 39 11 S 144 16 06 E) and the final stop for the night at MacCullochs Rest Area (#1007 - 31 41 42 S 143 48 53 E) I couldn’t resist taking a picture of the wild goats.  Since before Cobar we have seen hundreds of them along the roadside.  One wonders why nobody seems to care that they surely are becoming a feral pest, however cute the little ones are…

I finish today’s post with a beautiful fiery sunset:

Photo sunset