Tibooburra and Cameron's Corner

In "Jump-up" Country

When Parkies meet.

Sunset over The Granites

At Pinaro Lake

Russ walking on water at Lake Pinaro

The Corner

Playing on a clay pan

Eagle with kill

Eagle in flight

We have had a lovely time at Tibooburra. Naomi, Phil, Clancy and Dave Crust joined us for two days. Lots of laughter at the pub when we met up with some of the Parks people from here.The girls had fun catching small frogs, which are also in plague proportion, in the back of the pub. Had a lovely day out at the Jump-up country, even managing to find some fossils. Visited Olive Downs, an historic sheep/cattle station, which will be open to the public to stay in soon. Today we drove out to Cameron's Corner, about 130km's North-West. It is where the three states meet, NSW, South Australia and QLD. Driving through the desert, you see beautiful sand dunes, clay pans and grassy plains. There were lots of emus and wedge tail eagles. The eagles are huge. We were able to see Pinaro Lake with water in it. It is the first time in 30 years that it has had water in it. This is where Sturt carved a tree to guide his party to where the depot was. At the corner we had to open the Dingo fence, which is one of the longest man made objects in the world. It was originally designed to keep rabbits out, but failed. It is now used to keep dingos out of NSW and QLD. We said goodbye to our friends, and watched them drive off into QLD, on their way to the Northern Territory. Many roads are still closed out here due to the water which continues to make its way down from QLD. We have had to change our plans accordingly. The plagues of insects continue to annoy and amaze us. Last night there was a plague of small brown beetles. We even found a snake, possibly a Stimpsons python, sleeping in the bushes. Tomorrow we are off to Bourke, before heading up into QLD and hopefully Carnarvon Gorge.The days are now very hot and the nights beautifully mild.