Day 13: Thursday 7/3/24 - Inverell - Lake Coolmunda
Moving on today, so packed up the caravan, filled up the water tanks, hooked up and we're ready to go. One stop before leaving Inverell this morning though, Craig wants to have a look at the Woodturning place just out of town.
Cost is $5.00 per person to see this blokes work. He and Craig had plenty to talk about while looking around his workshop and timber stores. Finally he invited us to go inside his shop/display area. Really beautiful work and some of it was so intricate, it would so tediously time consuming but so amazing and also quite pricey.
This bloke also does metal sculptures which are all around his yard and you are welcome to wander around and look at them. Some of the sculptures were quite clever, he welds them together some various items and spare parts.
We spent about an hour here all up, but now it's time to head off to our lunch stop in Moree.
Along our way today, we passed some very pretty silo paintings.
Upon arriving in Moree and finding the first pub suggestion for lunch, we felt like if we pulled up we may get mugged. Sadly it just wasn't a very nice area of town, so we headed off to the second suggestion at Amaroo Tavern, which also has a caravan park across the road.
Amaroo Tavern is undergoing renovations but is still open, thankfully because Craig was getting cranky and I feel that if this place wasn't any good I think he'd be tossing all the toys out of his cot shortly.
Sat down, got him a beer and ordered Nachos and Chicken Wings. As soon as we finished eating we left. Heading to Inglewood for the night at the free camp, otherwise back up plan is Lake Coolmunda.
Hmmmm, stopped at the free camp, the trees are full of bats and you are right next to the highway. We decided to head out to Lake Coolmunda. We pulled up at the caravan park above the lake where you have to pay to stay at either the caravan park above the lake or the lakeside caravan park. Lady at reception said the lake was lovely at the moment, so I made the decision to stay there. She did say if we weren't happy down there, that we could come back up here and stay. When drove down to the Lakeside Caravan Park and realised it all looked rather familiar - seems both of us had forgotten that we stayed here 7 years ago 😆 We found a spot away from everyone, which we realised later is about where we camped last time. What we also had forgotten was how bloody windy it is here - OMG, it is blowing a gale and very uncomfortable. We set up and went for a wander around the campground, there really wasn't anyone sitting outside their camp enjoying the few and one lot of campers actually packed up and moved up to the top caravan park.
Don't get me wrong, it is a very nice campground, there is old amenities block and a new one that you need to use the swipe card you get when booking in, which also lets you through the boom gates to the campground. It is beautifully maintained, with picnic shelters around the place, campfires allowed also and pet friendly. Cost is $30.00/night for 2 people. It is just horribly windy.
Craig wanted to cook outside and was determined to make it happen, and rigged up wind breaks from our side walls, it did the job but geezus what an effort when there's a perfectly good cooker inside the caravan 😳 We had butter chicken and rice eventually, ate it, cleaned up. There'll be no campfire tonight and the bugs OMG you'd think they'd be blown away but nope they're all hanging around the lights. We pulled down the wind breaks and retreated inside for some relief.
Needless to say it was an early night. We'll do one more overnight stay before getting home.
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