Broome to Corindi Beach NSW

Sunset over Cable Beach

Broome to Corindi Beach NSW

It is not a blog from Broome without Sunset  and its Beach Camels

 Six weeks in Broome it was great once again good weather although this year we had a bit of  wind and a little rain as well but still not like it was down south and in Victoria.

Made more friends and generally enjoyed the time there, doing Sunsets, the beach but this year not the pool, to cold in the water.

Cable Beaches busy time

 A week before our departure we met up with Errol and Lyn whom we spent some time with, we celebrated Bianka's birthday with Errol, Lyn, Ian and Merilyn by going to a nice restaurant.

So on the 29th of July while the weather was warm and 30 degrees we left Broome, it took us 19 days to finally arrive in Corindi and are now   settled  in,  for the next 6 weeks, while our niece and family are overseas in Portugal visiting family, we are here to look after their house and animals. The weather is lousy 16 and very very wet.
 
Our first stop Ellendale dam

Ellendale Dam Free-Camp our visitors

 Katherine 2 nights,

Katherine Gorge and the bats, there are millions

Green Ants nest woven with leaves and web

 Mary Kathleen 2 nights free-camped,
 

Mary Kathleen Uranium Mine

Mary Kathleen has hundreds of slabs which were former carports one of these has a memorial box on it

This Memorial has all sorts of relics and you are able to leave a comment that I am doing now

Sunset at Mary Kathleen

Larrimah Hotel

The oldest hotel south of Katherine named the Pink panther Hotel and painted completely PINK

The pink panther shows a bit of nostalgia also has a private zoo

                                The caption reads 1993 Brambles had a convoy of 21 Prime movers and Trailers, 321 meters long, weight, and had 402 Tires

This is where our spring Water comes from note the tap

 we met up with Sandra and Peter, Mathew and Charmain, friends from the Jayco club in Isisford overnight,

Front Charmain, Bianka, Sandra rear Sig , Mathew, Peter

 Charleville 2 nights and than Toowoomba 2 nights all other nights were free camps for the night, the trip was uneventful, except for the wind it was mostly from a South Easterly angle thus almost a head  wind.  The good consumption we had on the way to Broome was lost leaving, Something to think about when you travel around the block. 

On the road Steaks

 Getting fuel in Winton I made the sad mistake of being to close to a drive way fence and I ripped the rear plastic corner cover  on the drivers side off,

All fixed again

 so another repair to be made when the opportunity arrives.

We had a flat tire in a free-camp just before Mt Isa,

look there is the puncher

 and we ended up purchasing 8 tires, 4 for the cruiser and 4 for the Van as I ended up getting a very good deal from Beaurepairs.

Second event was breaking a spring somewhere just after leaving Toowoomba,

Springs can break but why out of town and on a Friday ?

 Luckily the van dropped on the axle and stayed there (as someone waved at us saying we had a problem and after stopping I could not see or find anything) so I think we traveled like that for 200+ km's or more as I did not see it till a stop for a stretch in Wyberba 19k's from Tenterfield which was the next town with limited services made a few calls no luck no spring was available, so to get one we ended up staying the next 2 nights in Tenterfield  then having to drive almost 700k's km's to Coffs Harbour and return to get one from Jayco and to top it off the weather changed and by the time we got back it was raining so I changed the spring in the wet luckily not a great drama.

Tenterfield

Largest Rubber tree in Australia is in Tenterfield NSW

Deep Water National Park Water falls

sunset prior to rain

Great Divided range Lookout

Next day Sunday we headed off and arrived here at Corindi Beach mid afternoon.  Weather still lousy....   today we probably had 50 mm of rain the back yard looks like a pool.

Well so much for my ranting and raving hope you enjoyed the pics I posted, till next time 

Sig & Bianka

2014 The 6th year

Free camps warm pleasure

This is the reason we left Victoria

We are once again in Broome after much debate it was decided we would head for Broome and the warmer weather and have been here now for Four weeks at Cable Beach caravan park.

We left the cold behind us just after Mothers day, did our usual and stopped of in Woodonga at Shirls for a few days washed the Car and Caravan etc.

Finally headed of and pointed the car towards Bourke in NSW , but before than

Lockhart NSW

Lochart NSW our first stop and look around

This park had lots of these displays made out of steel and sheet metal 

Cobar NSW

Cobar for leg stretch at the old furnace

Bourke NSW

the name speaks for it self

We did a four part tour in Bourke

1/ Bourke one man show horses and bulls great to see

 

 Bullocks at work smile at it

2/ Cotton and more Cotton

A great delivery of unwashed unsorted Cotton

3/ Oranges for anyone

4/ paddle steamer ride up the Darling

 Lightning Ridge NSW

It is here we met up with Tom and Ann and did some sightseeing

Black Opal Country

Stanley Big bird entirely made out of VW

40 Km out of Lighning Ridge stands The Club in the Scrub only dirt roads to get to.

A miner building their house we think

Carvings under ground in a old mine

Good to see Essendon is represented under ground

Together we travelleled to Rubyvale to do some fossicking and stayed at a few Free camps

Surat Free camp

Virgin rock by day, at night it is lit up beautiful

Virgin Rock Free Camp

Tom & Ans Van and ours Virgin Rock Free Camp

Had a little luck, hard work though digging and then sifting and washing, much easier if we bought a few buckets at one of the gem places that is a lot of fun and not so hard on the bod.  

Pick and Shovel

Washing dirt for opals, see the concentration

Tom & Ann are at it also

after 4 days we said a sad farewell to our friends, We mainly stayed in free Camps from hereon

Four Mile Free Camp

Visitors a our overnight stop

Lake Carelligo Free Camp our view

Victoria River Road house Camp ground

Victoria river at sunset

Bridge over Victoria Rver which gets flooded over regularly

Lake Argyla sunset cruise this cruise gave us Sundown and Moonrise quiet spectacular

Lake Argyle's vastness of water

 

Sauvignon Blanc on board

Sauvignon Blanc in lake Argyle

Fresh water Crocodile lake Argyle

Sunset over Lake Argyle

Moon rises over Lake Argyle

On the road to Broome,

Numpang Cliffs Freecamp before Broome

 to finally arriving in Broome on the 17th June,

I know Camels again but it is the trend here

Cable Beach from left to right, Marilyn, Ian, Allan, Pat Bianka & Sig

Sunset at cable Beach

Fire behind Cable Beach

A visit to Crabb Creek at low tide and we saw these Skips or mud fish and there where thousands of them

Cable Beach Carpark or so it seems for most of the day light hours

Can never go past a good Sunset

we where unable  to get our site 79 which we had last year so we are on 50 instead not as nice as last year but a lot of shade.

Will be here till end July when we move of to house sit in CoffsHarbour for six weeks.for our niece.

The weather has been ordinary most of the time it has been around the 28-30 degrees water temp has been around the 21 so not much swimming so far, but then when you look at Victoria where it is cold and windy with rain most of the time.

We have now  also had rain and 17 degree .

Our time here is taken up with reading going into town, driving on  the beach, visiting friends as Ian and Merilyn are here also we had Pat and Allan here for a week which was nice and seeing the friends we made last year.

Anyway we are enjoying the warm weather.

Bianka & Sig

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Our site resident Frog Mouth Owls here during the day gone at night