Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 07:09
Got to agree about Kidman
Camp as it's great, we were there in July 2009 for a couple of days and the place was packed out. We saw the CBD as Fred G did and that is disappointing, but.
We did go to the Back O
Bourke exhibition which was very interesting and is OK as long as you are prepared to spend some time there and do lots of reading. Not everyone's cup of tea. We also took a trip on the Paddle Boat and it too was OK, something different. The Captain was very informative on the trip up the river but I wonder how much he has been brainwashed when he talks about
water useage in the area as that end of the river seemed to have plenty.
We wandered about town for a couple of hours and talked with a few of the locals, a couple of aboriginal blokes gave us a run down about
Bourke and pointed out some interesting facts. One acknowledged the condition of the CBD but said things weren't now as bad as they had been, the damage has been done and he admitted that they were trying to fix it up and to do that they needed people like us to go there and spend a couple of days.
We will go back because the Mulga
Creek Hotel (caravan
park down the back) about 60km south of
Bourke is a great place, plenty of space to
park, hot dhowers, couple of cabins, the pub is excellent and everybody get's around the fire either inside the pub or the 44gallon drum out front and the stories and yarns go on for hours. We stopped because we saw a helicopter in the car
park and I took a couple of pics, about 7 hours later we hit the sack.
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Wonderful people at the pub Peter and Gloria.
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