Good Morning, had a wonderful sleep last night full of energy this morning! Pancakes, we had pancakes for once for breakfast with honey - Craig likes pancakes, nearly as much as spaghetti.
A leisurely pack up this morning, the boys put the yabby pots out last night and Jayden had a fish this morning - caught some Carp, which went onto the fire being they are a noxious fish and can't be thrown back into the river.
We've got about 190klms to travel today (I know that's a huge day right) to reach Nindigully. Yep, prime reason for heading there is the Nindigully Pub and camping on the Moonie River. We got going about 10am heading north east toward Dirranbandi, then swung a right onto a dirt road taking us slightly south east to Thallon, then hung a left north to Nindigully. Everything was going smoothly until Craig may have turned a little early onto the dirt road to Thallon. A couple of klms in Darren came over the radio saying he thought we were a little early and heading to south. Once again, pull over amongst the roadworks going on, have a look at the map (I mentioned we were supposed to go a little bit more out of Dirranbandi before hanging the left), turn around back to the main road, go a couple of klms north and then hang a right to Thallon. Lots of cotton ball trucks on the roads, even this dirt road that cuts across to Thallon.
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| Cotton Ball truck |
Everything was going along nicely again, on the right road heading in the right direction, then......
the fuel warning light came on in the Gaylux. Craig radioed Darren told him the problem and that we were pulling over - generally it means there's some gump in the secondary filter maybe water, which just needs to drained out (we have 2 filters on the fuel system, after we got a bad lot of fuel at home with water in it and it cost a little bit of money to fix). Bonnet up, boys heads under there, no water to drain, don't know what else they did under there (stuff...), disconnected the battery to see if that would reset the alarm light (no). Decided to keep going to Nindigully with the light still on (at least we were with Darren & Julia if something did happen). We've never had any problems with the Hilux on any our of trips, it's always performed above and beyond our expectations, so for us this was unusual.
Smooth sailing into Nindigully from there, arrived about 12.30pm. Lovely looking old Qld pub. We found a park under the shade of the trees for Boris (sign said no dogs at all) and left the windows right down for him and his water bowl. It's quite busy in the pub with lots of newspaper articles, stories & photo's hanging on the wall to occupy you for quite a while. We had a couple of drinks while we had a look around and chatted to the lady behind the bar.
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| Nindigully Pub |
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| Beer Garden |
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| More of the beer garden |
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| A bit of the inside of the pub |
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| This amused us. |
Boris was allowed to come onto the verandah with us and when our lunch arrived, it might have drawn a bit of interest from the other punters.
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| The Road Train Burger! |
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| Our crowd |
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| Boy with our lunch |
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| A schooner next to the burger |
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| Darren hoeing in (check out the sign behind him) |
We cut that burger into 8th's, we had one piece leftover so that was Boris' dinner tonight. Nice burger, great chips & onion rings. It's the pubs claim to fame "Australia's biggest burgers", so you have to try one when you're there (it's the smallest of the burgers....). Lunch is done, we ran into some of the people we camped next to in Charleville on our first night and also the people that were at Hebel Pub when we first arrived there yesterday. Decided we should go find somewhere to camp earlier today.
Across the road is the Moonie River and a huge free camping area where you can have campfires & dogs (you can use the showers/toilets at the pub). Great spot to camp, we found a spot down near the weir, which is where the bar lady said is the better place to fish. The guys we met at Hebel last night, decided to come and join our camp (we didn't actually get their names, bad I know - there was mum, dad & 2 daughters, plus an old terrier type dog). Our new neighbours went up to the pub for dinner, we were all a little full still from lunch.... so a some point in the night Julia went over to the pub to try and order one of their huge nachos to bring back to camp, unfortunately that is on the lunch menu so she ordered a big pizza. The kids put the yabby pots out this afternoon on both sides of the river and tried their hand at fishing. Darren & his boys, Boris & the chainsaw went looking for some firewood and we had ourselves a nice evening campfire going. Just a lot of chatting and some drinks around the campfire tonight, then off to bed.
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| Our camp |
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| Jayden organising the campfire |
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| Pizza consumed. |
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| Sitting around the campfire |
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| The light in the distance is Darren & his boys going off to check the yabby traps |
That's it for today folks, a good fun day in general.
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