Day 21 - Inverell

Day breaking at Mitchell.

Sadly, this morning as we pack up camp in Mitchell, it feels like we are on our way home and the trip is drawing to a close.

We are headed to Inverell for the night via St George, Mungindi, Warialda and lots of small country towns - another 600km drive.

Sunshine streaming onto camp ready for our pack up.

Kangaroo procession.

A procession of 20 kangaroos hopped across the road up ahead of us - they looked like a video game as they just kept coming and coming.

A reminder to keep focused on the road.

Using each other as a lounge - reading in the car.

 

St George Weir

St George Weir was our morning tea stop and and chance for the boys to have a run around at the playground - ready for another couple of hours in the car.

Cleaning the sand out after the playground.

Cotton country

Nindigully Pub -  loved the "Free Beer ....... Yesterday" sign.
Would have enjoyed a night here as it was highly recommended.

Back in our home state - NSW!

Food fight with our stale sandwiches.

The police were watching us.

Lunch stop was at Garah about 1/2 hour from Moree.  Garah consisted of the Cotton Gin, Pub, Police Station and a few houses.

Tonight we are staying at the Inverell Caravan Park, highly recommend this caravan park.  $28 for a powered site, really clean amenities and plus we got a couple of complimentary drinks at Easts Bowling Club which is just up the road.

We had decided to eat out in Inverell anyway, so headed up for dinner at the Bistro.  Great feed at Easts!

The Meat Tray won at Easts @ Inverell

Even better were the Friday night raffles.  While Scott went to the bar, I bought some tickets for the raffles.

After our meal, the raffles started and the boys watched and waited as each number was drawn out, the suspense was almost too much.

After about 10 prizes one of our numbers came up - Yippee, we won a large meat tray!

Thanks Inverell, great town, great caravan park,
super friendly people plus we won a meat tray,

Day 20 - Mitchell (The Town not the Kid)

Cloudy morning sunrise in Longreach.

As Willie Nelson would say "On the road again".

Today we are travelling through lots of small towns between Longreach and tonights camp at Mitchell.

Ilfracombe had a long line of old trucks, farm machinery
etc. along the side of the road like an outdoor museum.

 

Augathella's claim to fame "Meat Ant Country".

The sign on the left is of the Cosmos Meatant, unfortunately we didn't have time to dig deaper in Augathella.

We had to be very careful of car eating cows along the way.

The weather turned bleak and we were worried it was going to be a wet camp tonight.  So far we have avoided any rain!

The sky was black and the wind whipped up............. lucky for us we were on the edge and only got a few drops.

Shearing shed in full swing.

Neil Turner Weir free camp.

Tonight we are free camping at Neil Turner Weir on the outskirts of the small country town of Mitchell.

Great camp with plenty of room, very clean public toilets, bins etc.

Our Mitchell in Mitchell.

Mitchell is a nice little town, and we would have enjoyed a full day here, there are Artesian pools in town, some shops, IGA, bakery, cafe, pub and playground.

There are a lot of photos of the town name since it's called Mitchell.

No playground back at camp, so the boys made their own fun.

Beautiful sunset over the weir to end our day.

Today we travelled about 600kms, there were so many interesting little towns to check out along the way that you could easily spend a few days travelling this distance, if you didn't have a job to get back to!