8 (feels like 5) - 19, a bit of cloud cover this morning, something we've not seen for a long time, it's not raining (currently) so all good
It was a little warmer than it has been so easier to get up. After walks and breakfast, we were on the road at 8:15am. First stop was Eulo. We were looking forward to having coffee and muffins at the general store and café as they were both great last visit, but we missed out as it does not open on a Sunday. Not to worry, we have our own technology, so drove to some hard standing on the outskirts of town and brewed-up. Had a little wander around Eulo but we'd seen it all before less than 12 months ago.
Onwards to Cunnamulla to see the Fella, and to resupply our fuel, water, lunch and then dump. For lunch, we visited the same café as we did last year. Wendy had the same as last year, a camel burger, but Greg decided on a big brekky as he couldn't get over the hump last time. The last time we were here, on 11 May 2022, it was the beginning of a La Nina rain event and our van park booking was not honoured so we had to hightail it back to Charleville. There is still a lot of water laying about in the paddocks and on the side of the road but that is from a more recent rain event. With all the essentials on board again we headed South out of town towards our next free camp.
We skipped the first free camp we had planned to stop at as it was too early. It was about 2:45pm when we reached the 'Pull in Off Road with 4G' free camp about 3km South of Enngonia. Again we are on our pat malone. There is a lot of red dirt, and with rain predicted (1-2mm), maybe the majority of grey nomads decided to give it a miss and opted for hard standing somewhere. We'll just enjoy the solitude and silence.
After setup, we had a brew then Greg did his exercises & stretches whilst Wendy put the drone up again. Sometimes we are unable to put it up as there is an airstrip/airport nearby such was the case at Quilpie and many other places we've stayed. It didn't even give us the option of applying for authorisation, it just said, "take-off not possible". We didn't even try at Longreach nor Blackall.
As we had 4G, Wendy decided to upload pictures to the blog from last night and start on this one. Although we only have 2 bars we managed to load all the pics we wanted, albeit very slowly. We have noticed in our travels that many of these smaller outback towns have 5G; when we were at Longreach, Telstra reception was shocking because they were upgrading to 5G, so we we used our Optus modem. Perhaps that's why the reception at Karumba was also bad?
Dinner was left over veggies from last night, with Greg's leftover sausage and bacon (lunch) re-fried with some onion. Wendy did her veggies in the pan with the meat, whilst Greg warmed his in the microwave. Nice and simple, and tasty.
Some more tracks, perhaps a feral cat
