The Louth Races and The Real Outback...

All ready to rock and roll!!!

 A week before we left on our Outback Adventure , Steve fitted a you beaut gas heater, as up northwest the nights are still freezing but the days are warm and sunny. We took off with the caravan full and our adventure bike on the back of the ute. Always good for getting around.

 First stop was Wellington where the temperature dropped to -3!!!! Luckily we had the heater because after this stop it never worked again! After much internet searching, we found out we needed a high flow gas regulator and none was to be found!

We had a one night stopover at Cobar on the Newey Reservoir. A very nice town with it's main claim to fame being a giant open cut copper mine not very pretty is it?. The Reservoir was a  free camp with great facilities.

Finally we reached Louth as we'd been looking forward to meeting up with our mates from Currarong for a 4 day party at The famous Louth Races. What an amazing atmopshere. ,5000 people  rock into this one horse town that barely has a population of 100 camping on what ever spare ground they can find. Camp fires are blazing night and day, music blaring, and tall tales being spun with plenty of laughter. Just our type of town.

As you can see the Fashions on the Field were spectacular. 

The races were packed  there were atleast 14 bookmakers and plenty of mug punters .

And best of all Steve and I picked the winner of the Louth Cup. I had a few other wins as well and it paid for my grog, sorry I can't say the same for Smally!

The Louth township had a top pub The Shindys Inn. We spent most of Sunday arvo here of course.

  Plus the cemetery where there is a gorgeous granite monument to Mary Matthews which is supposed to light up at sunset. Afraid we didn't catch it.

 

The Darling river is looking very poorly as this area is crying out for rain. The last time they had any rain at all was 6 months ago! 

On Monday, 6 of us moved 20 kms on to Trilby Station, while the rest of our mates went on their separate ways. Trilby is a working sheep station right on the Darling river which opens its gates to travellers offering cheap camping and accommodation. It's a beautiful property but unfortunately drought ravished.

After a few cold days exploring this beautiful area we moved on to Cunnamulla before the rains hit. Yes we've done it again just call us "the drought breakers" last time we were up in this area it was the beginning of the 2010 floods which broke a 10 year drought!!

Cunnamulla greatest claim to fame is the Cunnamulla Fella which is a song made famous by Slim Dusty.

 

Next stop Nindigully pub and after that who knows where so I'll blog again in a week or so....