3. Surat and friends

Heading south and we spent 3 nights at a beautiful free camping area on the outskirts of Surat. 

The small township of Surat was another proud town with beautiful parks, a fantastic museum and all the facilities that a traveller would need. Friends Rob & Glenda from Yorke Peninsula in South Australia showed up with their daughter who lived nearby on a Station Property and we enjoyed one another’s company, eating well and keeping warm around a camp fire in the evenings.

 

Sharing an evening campfire is always good

Rob & Glenda’s daughter said her goodbyes, returning to work leaving us to travel together enjoying one another’s company. 

 

Continuing south our next stop over was at another nice setting along the bank of the Moonie River at the 150 year old Nindigully Pub. This is another popular location set up to entice travellers to visit with a free camping area provided and in return generating income at the pub providing employment, keeping the area as a viable set-up and it was well patronized.

 

Signage enticing visitors from main road

Signage coming from opposite direction

 

An hour’s drive east and we propped for the night, enjoying time exploring the small township of Talwood.

Then another hour’s drive and we were camped in the show grounds at the largish township of Goondiwindi where the tow tug and caravan obtained a clean and the tow tug received a service. We topped up with fuel and food and explored some of the township.

 

One of our aims this year was to participate in the Bushtracker Owners Group caravan muster at Mullumbimby near Byron Bay New South Wales and it was time to start heading that way.

 

The township of Texas was our next stop over where a free camping area was provided a couple of kilometres out of the town in a beautiful bush setting. It was well patronized and we enjoyed chatting with many happy people while watching a variety of different coloured parrots flying amongst the trees.

Texas camping area

 

King Parrot
 

One night turned into two nights which turned into four nights at Texas. It was hard to take a walk without being held up by dialogue with other campers.

From Texas we spent 3 days travelling through picturesque country side over a distance of about 360 kilometres to Mullumbimby.

Mullumbimby was to be our location for the next 10 days where 88 Bushtracker caravans gathered for the 2015 muster.