Birdsville to Bedourie

Day 9 - Birdsville to Bedourie

Friday, 14 September 2012

Took our time decamping, making use of the CP camp kitchen to fill the flask. Chatting to some one who had just finished the Madigan's Track - a convoy of 8 vehicles, I think that would have been a challenge.

Tried to stock up on some groceries at the roadhouse, but forgot half the things that I needed. I always have trouble in small country towns, there never seems to be anything I eat - fresh stuff! The little museum was good, then we headed or to the bakery for morno's catching up for final farewells with Inara and Lange. The bakery was more characterful than the hotel, and PAV certainly approved of the curried camel pie. Coffee wasn't bad either whilst I caught up on emails.

Back on the road north to Bedourie, had to visit seeing as I have a Bedourie Oven. Just north. Is a stand of Waddi Trees, one of only 3 places where they grow wild. One of the hardest woods, when it is dry apparently impossible to drill a hole in. Halfway to Bedourie is Carcoola homestead ruins, good place for lunch (I hadn't had a curried camel for morno's and was hungry) but it turned out the flies were hungry as well, and it was a race to eat my sandwich before they could. In the meantime we heard on the radio that the Birdsville Bakery Curried Camel Pie had won the Great Australian Pie Competition in Melbourne!

Bedourie felt like a ghost town, but for $50 deposit you got the key to the local artesian spa, Michael had told us it was worth it so off we went for a soak - it was lovely, but it didn't take long before I felt I was being cooked - were the cannibals hiding around the corner? So we had to check out the hotel pub for a cold beer. However, it was not paycheck week and was not a hive of activity either. We headed out of town and camped in a dry creek bed, quite hard, but lots of flies. Fortunately they went to bed before we had dinner.

	Birdsville Bakery [Map]		The original Birdville Hotel [Map]
	Birdsville 'Artesian' water supply [Map]		Waddi Trees [Map]
	Cacoory Homestead Ruins [Map]		Cacoory Views [Map]
	Cuttabuck Crossing [Map]		This little Piggie! [Map]
	Bedourie Hotel [Map]

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