Bucket List Destination Fulfilled

 Finally moved on from our little paradise on Wednesday, hadn't meant to stay that long but the car needed some maintenance issues sorted at Goondiwindi Toyota, which gave Les and I another day to wander around the town.

                                

                                 

And a look in Custom's house Museum and the levy walk, but definitely ready to move on by the time we got the car back. (Which turned out to be a dirty injector and was cleaned under warranty)

We crossed the border into NSW on Wednesday, finally left Qld. But wait for it, we re-entered Qld later that day to make a stop at the famous Nindigully Pub. This spot has been on our bucket list for a while and we didn't realise how close we were to it whilst at Goondi.  A free camp along the Moonie River across the road (more like a paddock) from the pub. Nindigully, apart from being famous for its Truckies Burgers (5.5kg of meat),  also lays claim to holding the oldest continuous pub licence in Qld (since 1864). And finally for the Australian film buffs, it is the set to that Hugh Jackman film, Paperback Hero.

We joined in for Happy Hour drinks on Thursday and stayed for much longer than anticipated chatting to fellow travellers around the huge fire pit in the beer garden, a great time had by all and well worth the stop.

From here we plan to make a huge loop back into Brisbane for hopefully the final repairs on the van window.

So once again across the border into NSW we go, this time at Hebel, before making our way to Lightning Ridge, famous for its black opals and hot artesian spa baths.

Passing the silo art at Thalon

(Here's an idea for the girls' paint days.)

Camped just out of town at "Stanley" the Big Emu.

Moving on from There we pass through Walgett, another free camp just out of Moree at Gum Flat Reserve, before coming into Glen Innes on Sunday.

Gum Flat Reserve

Found a nice free camp just North of the town, have met a couple of locals already, "crazy cat woman", Not really, she was a lovely lady, volunteer for Animal Welfare Association, a fellow camper apparently reported a dumped kitten here last night so she was on the hunt.  She did find it but found herself in a bit of a mess caught in brambles and such in the creek and needed a hand rescuing the poor animal.

A bit worried about camping here, not for feral cats but apparently going down to -3 tonight. Sheep Grazier warning out, and according to "Cat Lady" might snow.

Hopefully we haven't frozen and can still report our tales next week.

                              

                                                       Beardy Waters Camp - Glen Innes