Well went back to work yesterday, after a week on the track & at
Birdsville
Unforunatly I had to come back to work while Roachie ,family & 5 other forby's are crossing the dessert
Was a great trip up and took 3 days
We stopped @ Lynhurst the first night as all tracks where closed,I have pics of the signe boards with closed next to every track name
A Nissan navara joined our convoy @ Lynhurst with a couple of blokes from
Melbourne called Ben & Bucky
Was alot of water & mud on the road, But if we didnt have it ,it would be a boring trip lol and nothing to talk about
Claytons
bore creek was probably the longest water crossing we did
Although having said that there was some big mud sections too
Mungarannie was our next nights
camp where we ran into Patrolman Pat & he joined us as
well
Looked for the Page family
graves on our run into
birdsville on the 3rd day but by our GPS calculations it was under water lol
On arrival into
Birdsville my family met Ruth & Ian for the first time what a loverly cpl & always ready to help & & what a quick wit ruth has
Had dinner @ the hotel that night with everyone after we set up
camp
being a chef myself i know a kitchen can get backed up & dockets go missing which i hope was the case with us
Now the food was very nice although Barbs vegies where nearly raw on her roast
& seeing they where'nt that busy I didnt think we should of had to wait 1 1/2 hours for our meals seeing people who ordered 1/2 hour after us & had their entree's & mains & their mains where the same as our & some had
well done steaks while we where still waiting for ours seeing they had 6 waitresses & 4 in the kitchen,But in the end the meal was nice so i will leave it @ that
Now one place everyone should have a hamburger is The Barkery .What a hamburger. A homemade bun wider than both my hands put together with everything on it & i mean everything so tall with everything in it they have to put a wooden skewer in it to hold it together lol And then eat it infront of the open pit fire in front of the
shop Oh and how much is the burger $8 & worth it
went to the Working Museum & what a place that is & the bloke running it, spent hours there & the tour he gives 4 times daily is worth taking & all included in the price of $20 per family or $7 for a individual
After the mesium we all decided it was time to go play on Big Red . Couldnt go to Birdville & not play on there lol
We played there till after dark doing the eat & both west track
The next day it was time for the group & me to part ways them heading over the desert & me back down the track back to work
After a Cappacino @ Ruth's we headed back down the birsdville track
We where going to go via cardillo downs track & Strezleki but towing a camper decided not to wich in hindsight was a good thing as when we got to Lynhurst the next day Strezleki was still closed
Smashed a rear
barn door window on the trol ( no silly me didnt have a stone guard) . & got bogged in some mud once but got out in about 10 mins ( what a difference a cpl of days of the track dtying out makes We stopped @
Marree overnight on the way back and @ The Drovers Rest they charged us $40 yes $40
for an unpowered site for the night
Once we got back onto the blacktop @ Lynhurst guess what it started pelting down with rain & didnt stop till we reached Kanina
Now one other place in my opinion to visit as we did on the way up & way back is the old wood fire pie
shop @ Warrabrra( spelling probably wrong ) the pies are so good & full of meat ( not mince ) meat & not much gravy & what a selection of cakes & pies
rang Ruth & iam to let them know we made it back safely
well i'm back @ work now so planning the next trip to the flinders in September & i'm sure Roachie will give a report of the Simpson on his return
Warren snr