Sitting around the campfire in Quilpie we are with other travellers. One from Albury and a couple from Darwin who haven’t been home in 5 years. The owners of the caravan park were here serving soup for dinner but have gone. The Darwin couple do the mail run – 10 local properties in 10 hours twice a week. In tourist season (April to October) you can buy a ticket to go with him and be served tea in the homesteads on the way around.
Quilpie is very quiet tonight. We were here 3 years ago and it was packed – standing room only around the fire, entertainment laid on and lots of noise. Not school holidays tonight, and a bit of a lull – it was full last night and bookings for tomorrow, but only 3 people in all day today.
Big travel day today. Early start from Birdsville after a visit to the pump and the ‘i’. Fortunately the reports we had that the road was much improved from 14 years ago turned out to be correct. Then Windorah to Birdsville was a big day. Today Cooper Creek was a late lunch.
Not too much time to stop today. A new lookout just East of Betoota in memory of a Birdsville boy killed in the helicopter accident, gave us an elevated view of a mostly flat landscape. Apart from that it was birds, roadkill, and for the last hour, potential roadkill.
Big day today, bigger day tomorrow but home is not far now.
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