May 23, 2013 - Charleville sights

24th May We have had a mixed bag of weather for our stay. Lots of rain, some sun with cold winds. Charleville has an average rainfall of approximately 500mm per annum [most falling in summer] The summers are dry hot days and warm nights with very little humidity. Average temperature range from 20 to 38 degrees [can reach over 40]. The winter is cold nights with mild sunny days with the average temperatures range from 4 to 22 degrees. Can experience sub zero temperatures. There have been major floods in 1905,1917,1934,1990,2008 and 2010....

May 22, 2013 - CHARLEVILLE QLD

23rd May 2013 Decided to do the housekeeping today......A woman's work is never done.....sigh... sigh Big clean from top to bottom, front to back and Essie is looking almost brand new again. Rob is at Erin's place doing some odd jobs for her and when he came back he did some more reinforcing on the bike rack. Shouldn't move at all now. Tomorrow it's shopping and museum, well at this stage anyhow. You know what they say about the best plans......etc.

May 21, 2013 - Morven To Charleville

It's on to Morven now, a whole 45ks up the road. Found the Morven Recreation Area which was said to have had power and water but even though we were there around 10am all those sites were taken so we camped over on the side of the billabong which we found to be better in the long run as it was quieter and there was more room anyway. We set up camp and then walked into town. A bit of history for you now: Morven is on the Warrego Highway and was originally known as Saddlers Waterhole and named after Captain T. J. Sadlier, who camped with his...

May 11, 2012 - Charleville to Longreach

11th May 2012 Day 4: Odometer 8721 Left Charleville at 8.25 am. We stopped at Blackall and had lunch at 12.10. We also stopped at Barcaldine to see the new tree of Knowledge Monument which was really good as it look like a gigantic wooden pipe organ, whilst there we also seen a truck carrying 2 monster truck show cars which we took photos of they are huge in real life. Off we go to Longreach where we had to refuel at 162.9/ litre. We took on 104.46 litres this time. The free camp this time was at the Longreach Waterhole where there were 48...

Sep 8, 2011 - Day 4 Bourke to Charleville

Day 4 Bourke to Charleville Kathy and Wally fed us breakfast and we were all organized to leave Bourke at 8:30am. We had a big day of driving ahead of us to reach Charleville, but we cruised through the Queensland border, and made the 450km in under 5 hours, with only one pit stop at the service station in Cunnamulla. The kids were fantastic - they watched a bit of TV and strummed the ukulele. On recommendation from fellow travellers, we headed to the Bailey Bar campsite for the night. We set up the annex for the first time as the skies...

Jun 25, 2011 - A Quick Uptdate While in Town

Hi, A quick hello while we have a coffee in town. We are loving Evening Star at Thurlby Station. The managers, Gavin and Maria are great and Justin the station owner joined us at the campfire on the first night. We walk along the bush track each day and have walked through the part of the station that we are allowed to walk along. Saw a kangaroo and emu footprints. We are not to go off the track as feral dog traps have been laid. We go to the campfire each night and find some very interesting people to talk to. Last night Barry cooked our...

May 16, 2011 - Charleville

14th May. We left Cunnamulla and headed for Charleville, like yesterday, we saw more wild life, emus.......we must have seen nearly a hundred in the 200klms. We arrived in Charleville at lunchtime.......we have booked into the Bailey Bar Caravan Park for two nights, the park is just so so, it’s old and it is packed because there is a rodeo here this weekend. Charleville is not at all what we expected, it’s just another run down country town. After lunch we went for a drive to see what is here, we called in at the Corones Hotel, which has at...

Aug 15, 2010 - Charleville Queensland via Bourke

15.8.10 Charleville in south west Queensland is quite a pleasant country town and we booked ourselves in to a very well laid out caravan park attached to a 33,000 acre cattle station – 8 km out of town. This was a very restful stop, very quiet right out in the bush with a camp fire each night, stock horses grazing around the caravans and an amazing night sky with the stars being so bright in the clear air. The days were warm and fine but the temperature dropped to 3 degrees at night! We didn't expect it to be so cold in Queensland! Tomorrow...

Jun 28, 2010 - Rest Day

Beautiful morning at Charleville, no wind, clear skies but cool, about 1 degree overnight. Last night was so clear with all the stars and planets and full moon giving a wonderful show. Shame that Brian & Robyn picked the wrong night for the eclipse. Woke this morning to find that about 10 horses from our station were wandering around caravans, they seemed very tame and all the nomads were busy with their cameras. Today we are having a bit of a rest and will do some bush walks after lunch. Have been convinced to ring ahead for our...

Jun 27, 2010 - Charleville, Qld.

For the past few days we have had such a busy time since Dubbo that it has been hard to keep our diary up to date. After Bourke and further north past Cunnamulla to Nandoo Station we found that not only did we not have TV but no mobile signal or internet connection. Now on Sunday at Charleville we have some TV and intermittent phone/ internet signal and can update our log. Tuesday afternoon at Bourke’s Kidman caravan park we met several couples staying with us and in particular, Daryl & Meghan on one side and Joy and Perry on the other. We...

May 19, 2010 - Day 1 - Brisbane to Charleville

Day 1 report: Kilometres - 760 roadkill - 0 (but some kangaroos and wedge-tailed eagles came close!) breakdowns - 1 arguments 0 Not a bad first day really. As I write this all are in bed snoring except John who is reading and keeping me company. It was a truly glorious day for travelling - clear blue skies, and warm (until the sun set then the chill set in). The countryside changed dramatically: fields of cotton, wheat, sorghum, cattle and sheep paddocks, cyprus trees and prickly pear. For the last hour before arriving in Charleville we...

May 19, 2010 - Charleville

Charleville is our first stop on this 2 month trip. We are camping in luxury with a camp kitchen to cook and eat in tonight. We finally left Peter's factory in Carole Park at 8.30am this morning. All went well until Dalby where we had to replace an airconditioner idler pulley (faulty bearing). Luckly we had one of these in our vast array of spares. After that it was plain sailing through Roma and Mitchell to Charleville. Late in the day we passed quite a few kangeroos on the road as well as wedge tail eagles feasting on road kill. We...