Culgoa to Currawinya

You can be lulled fairly easily into the assumption that 24/7 trading is universal now. However, I have realised now that this is not necessarily the case in the more remote rural parts. While I had hoped to do some shopping in Cunnamulla I was not hugely optimistic. What I wasn’t prepared for was Sunday trading early morning and late evening, and closed through the middle of the day.

Unfortunately, Eulo was the same. The Eulo store is an experience in itself, and with a honey lover onboard, I was looking forward to buying a stock from the Eulo Store. It was however, not to be.

Eulo did however cough up another surprise. An immaculately conserved FJ Ute was parked outside the pub. I think I know someone who might be just a little envious.

The road out from Culgoa goes past one of those outback surprises – a sports complex in the middle of nowhere. The “locals” probably gather once or twice a year – the rest of the time it lies idle in all its magnificence and that is how we found it.

Currawinya is very pleasant indeed. On the banks of the Paroo it is more densely wooded than Culgoa and with the soil tending to sandy red, and tussocky grass and saltbush, the colours are striking. This was even more true as we arrived with a low sun and a heavy cloudbank in the south.