26 - 28 June Charleville

We have just spent 3 wonderful days in Charleville at The Evening Star Tourist Park which is part of a 33,000 acre property. How many kangaroos did we see on the way - 100's (of dead ones that is) poor things. The crows have an absolute banquet laid on out here. The landscape has changed from brown dirt to a lovely red, which is just such a beautiful contrast to the greenery and the blue sky. Every night here was party night with Saturday and Sunday nights drinks @ 5pm followed by live country music. (Jamie and I will need a good detox when we get back!) The weather was a fingernail aching 0 degrees of a morning, but the days were glorious. We spent our days fishing with the local kids, watched as a weather balloon was released into the sky at the bureau of meteorology, seeing the monuments of the town , relaxing and shovelling stuff from the van to car, car to van, where is the toilet paper, where is my ..... Charleville is the home of the cosmos and the bilby, but our kids were happy to roam the property, feed the horses, dig up kangaroo skeletons and one guess, which kid put his hand on the stinging nettles! Poor little Christopher is an accident waiting to happen! His other injuries include, raw skin on the back of his legs from his gym boots, a scraped and bruised neck from running around logs near the fire and a soaked body - yes he fell into the creek. On the night before we left we were graced with this magnificent sunset. Our next stop - Blackall.