7th July Thargomindah-Windorah

Left Thargomindah 8:15pm we were only on the road for a short time and we came across a road train in the opposite direction.














We continued on until we got to Toompine an arrived there at 10:00am we stopped for a break and a look around the Toompine pub helped feed the baby lambs and goats out of beer bottles with teets. Saw a camel, goats. Dogs and lamas.



On the road again after half our break this road seems to have a lot of road kill on it of kangaroos, a lot of emus running all over the place. In some parts of this country it is very green and flat it start off being a very cool day.















We were almost to Quilpie and there was a sign to baldy top lookout so took a detour to see what it was like you could almost see across Qld.

Pulled into Quilpie what a quaint little town. Quilpie is “Home off the Boulder Opal” and “Colour of the Country.” and is located on the western sideof the Bulloo River. We had a walk around town check out some opal shops even though the boys were not impressed.

Kim and I walked up to the local Catholic church to look at the opal alter it was magnificent. We are now on our way to Windorah after a quick lunch break which is about 200ks so we will be there in good time.


We have come across a few road-trains out here so it is safer to slow down and move over and let them have the whole road as they are two big to argue with and they don't slow down very often. Just as we were coming into Windorah a police man was stopping everyone to check there license never had that experience before there is always a first I suppose.

They have a Solar Farm out here on the edge of town there are five sun mirrored dishes 13.7m across providing daytime electricity to the town. A first for Queensland. Cooper Creek runs near this town and there was a nice free camp site near there.