The Winding Road

 

Thursday 25 May Larrawa to Bungles

A good night’s sleep for Larry as he had left Darryl to be Shaun’s drinking buddy last night and hence didn’t suffer the effects of too many beers followed by too many ports.

We headed off just after 8am whilst the Adamsons were a bit behind us as they were chatting to a family they had met previously on the road.  The road started heading north east from Larrawa and an hour or so later we were heading into Halls Creek.  It hasn’t really improved any as a tourist destination so it was a matter of fuel up and get the hell out of Dodge.

We arrived at Spring Creek rest stop just after 11am so plenty of time to make up chicken and salad sandwiches, using up the rest of the chicken from the pasta bake.  The Adamsons pulled in just as were packing up and letting down tyres so a quick chat with them.  They are staying here this afternoon/evening as their van is too big to take into the Bungles so they will have a relaxing afternoon and meet up with us in Bungles tomorrow. 

It was a long and slow drive for the two intrepid vans into the Bungles as the road is steep and windy at the best of times and currently there are numerous (at least 20) creek crossings to traverse which made it exciting (and only a little stressful).  The only casualty was one D shackle as Shaun’s hitch is a bit lower for the stabiliser bars and a couple of the creek crossings had rocks and holes to bump into.

We were glad to make the visitor centre and check in and then made our way to Kurrajong camp which we were surprised to find fairly empty.  In fact they had only opened the first loop of the 4 camping areas which contains 45 campsites and probably by the evening only a dozen of these at the most had any one in them.

So a quiet and relaxed afternoon/evening was had and as we only had to heat up pre-prepared spag bol for dinner where we free to sit and relax until deciding 8.30pm was an acceptable time to retire to our vans for hot showers, books and bed.