Trish Travels: Tibbooburra to Dingo Fence

Day 4 - Tibbooburra to Dingo Fence

Saturday, 22 September 2012

Checked out a small mine site before hitting town, along with a 'nature' walk. Got to get some exercise in as there is a 3rd iconic Aussie Bush Pub in Tibbooburra! This is getting to be hard work having a beer at lunch time, I know I don't have to have alcohol, but you sort of feel you should support these places, dont you? Before we went in, we checked out the info centre again, sure enough the same delightful lady was there from last year. We exchanged all the goss, told her about our frog hitchhiker that we picked up last year in Tibbooburra and had a laugh. Se also double checked that the part of the dog fence we wanted to drive was in fact open to the public, then we went across the road to the iconic pub. Didn't serve food either, but only today as there was work being done in the kitchen, and this lady was not as obliging as Mel, in fact she seemed downright grumpy! They also didn't have XXXX Bitter, told us she couldn't give it away (well she could to me) people there would rather drink XXXX Gold. I kept my mouth shut!

Afterwards we parked beside the open air theatre (relic) and sat in a couple of their old chairs to eat our own sandwiches.

Off to find the dingo fence. I have never opened so many gates in one day -in fact I doubt in all our travels, this year and last. I've certainly earnt my keep today. Eventually we got through all the homestead paddocks and came to the dingo fence only to discover still more gates!!! Was just wondering which side the fence was meant to keep the dingos in when a large dingo ran across the track in front of us, carrying in its moth what I thought was a fox, but PAV thought it was a dingo pup. Looked too big to me, but it all happened so quickly.

Lots of crests, red sand, lots of green, has obviously rained recently. Just lovely. Not sure where we will pull up to came when we spotted Lake Boolka. WOW, the dingo fence runs right through it, in fact in the middle it is submerged. Found a small track leading off beside the lake and we eventually found a suitable campsite - quite a few ant nests on all the level places.