Birdsville

Friday 21 August 2015

Overnight we decided that we would get up earlier than usual to beat the flies.  Well that plan failed - they were more than happy to join us for breakfast, just like they had the night before when we tried to eat our dinner. Barbara from SA saved my sanity by giving me one of her spare fly nets.  

 

We called into the Cadelga Ruins on the way out which were just over the other side of the waterhole.  It would have been quite a grand stone building in its day but it is slowly crumbling away. A pity but not sure who would be prepared to stay out in this harsh environment to restore it to its former glory.  

 

Birdsville is our destination today. We are presently on the Developmental Road and stopped for morning tea. Ric has a problem with the Blitz but news on the two way is that it is fixed and they're mobile again.   Hugh T had a flat tyre on his Landrover but with several eyes watching it has been fixed. It's blowing a gale this morning and there is dust everywhere, but NO flies.   We have seen loaded cattle trucks on the road and there were cattle in the yards ready to be trucked. When we arrived in Birdsville the convoy headed straight for the bakery where we met up with those who had gone ahead to get vehicles fixed etc. It is a bigger town than what we expected  and in 2 weeks the population will swell to 8,000 when the Birdsville races are on. Glad we will be out of the place by then.