To Cunnamulla - 23 June 2014

It was 4.9 degrees about 7.30 this morning. Pretty cool!

St George is not far from Nindigully Pub so we stopped to fill up with fuel. The Unique Egg was next door to the servo we went to. We had a look at The Unique Egg a couple of years ago when we were in St George then. Absolutely amazing. It is quite funny, as you enter the gallery through a sports/gun shop, and the gallery is out the back. The guy who carves the emu eggs is of Greek descent. The eggs are just beautiful. They had them on display at the Olympics in Athens in 2004 I think it was. He does eggs on commission as well. They are certainly worth seeing. We will go and have another look at them at some stage but left it this time as it is only a couple of years ago that we saw them.

As we left St George we started seeing signs advising that we will be seeing road trains 53 metres long, or the prime mover and 2 trailers in length. We had also been advised by a couple of people round the campfire that there are lots of wild goats along the roads out near Cunnamulla and beyond.

We stopped at Bollon for morning tea at Deb's Café. There wasn't much to choose from to eat but we decided on a piece of slice that looked reasonably healthy. Unfortunately, it had been cooked a bit too long, and even though it tasted nice, we hoped we didn't break a tooth!

Across from the Café was Wallam Creek. There were only a couple of puddles of water in it but with the depth of the creek, you can picture the amount of water flowing through it in times of flood.

We arrived at Cunnamulla mid afternoon. We had booked in to the Warrego Riverside Tourist Park, which is about 3 kms out of Cunnamulla. We had had a few people recommend it to us and had also said it was wise to book. We rang yesterday and Judy, one of the owners, said they rebook sites if you are not there by 3pm and they haven't heard from you. I rang from Bollon to confirm.

It is a nice little park, with only about 25 powered sites, although there are lots of unpowered sites. The powered sites have grass and in between the sites, Judy has grown herbs and encourages you to pick and use them. There is a pretty big camp kitchen and a nice clean amenities block with lovely showers.

On the banks of the river they light a campfire and have Happy Hour every afternoon from 5pm. We watched a lovely sunset with an enormous log burning in the special fire pit. We spoke to a few people staying here and everyone is very friendly. As we came back to our van, the couple in the van next to us said hi, and told us they had done a tour of the town and surrounds that afternoon and highly recommended it. We thought we would do it tomorrow.