To the Camooweal Billabong

A couple for the grandkids who are Thomas enthusiasts - we were caught at a train crossing at Winton waiting for a cattle train - waiting a long time!

It continues..

Another photo from Winton - M is the swaggie

 The landscape over these last few travelling days has ranged from treeless plains with straw coloured grasses waving in the wind to hilly red crags of mesas with sparse scrubby vegetation.  We've passed very healthy looking paddocks to dry rocky ground.  Today the roadside vegetation was so beautiful with the silvery wavy spinifex with its cushiony base creeping out towards the road mingled with russet brown and pinky coloured grasses with  yellow pea bushes and wattle in the next level back.  Silvery grey trees became predominant and it was lovely to see the leaves waving in the breeze against the red rocks around. Could go on....M.

It's Sunday 1 July 2012 and we have moved on to the Camooweal Billabong, a free camp on the bank of the Georgina River. Camooweal now advertises itself as an "RV Friendly Town", encouraging the multitudes of self-contained vans and motorhomes to stop in or near their town. It is a whole new attitude that we are seeing a lot of.

The camp spot here is really beautiful. A few kilometres down a dirt road just over the bridge out of town, and then pick your spot along the high banks amongst dozens of other rigs, nicely spaced out,overlooking billabongs on the river full of bird life.

Here are a couple of photos. We will spend a couple of days here.

Camped by the billabong, not quite under but near the coolabah tree!

The billabong, complete with brolgas, ducks, herons etc etc., and a small mob of horses that came down for a drink on the opposite side on sundown