Mambray Creek Campground

Our grand plan was to spend the night at Mambray Creek Campground located between Port Augusta and Port Pirie in the Remarkable Mountains (sounds like a place from the Hobbit, right?). We drove to the campground and, guess what, it was just as hot here as was anywhere else...no altitude break at all. This made us very reluctant to pitch our tent.

Silverton and the Outback

Another day of cool weather and we headed back toward Silverton. A few kilometers on the other side of town are the Mundi Mundi plains. This is the outback for real. Here is one of the original sheep stations in this part of Australia. And the history continues.

A Visit to Menindee

About an hour's drive south east is the small town of Menindee. Lots of straight road and heat. There are also lots of Emu.

In the Outback

After our night in Broken Hill, we headed east and north toward White Cliffs. This took us out the Barrier Highway into the emptiness that is the outback.

Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary II

One of the two largest birds in Australia, the Cassowary (the heaviest of the two), is a significant carnivore and, by all reports a nasty tempered critter. As you can see there is a fence between us and this old bird has learned to be calm with all the humans walking about

A Drive in the Country

After leaving the Jumpers and Jazz Festival in Warwick, we took a different route back to Toowoomba just for grins and saw a different bit of the countryside.