After Millmerran............?????

[sutcac]

....a few of us decided to head south for a few days.........
.....down Texas way ..........and on to that beautiful place Kingies showed us ..............Bingara on the Gwydir River.............stayed at the C P on the first night...... ;D ;D ;D






....picked up an old hydramatic for a mate in Texas........
...........managed to spill tranny fluid all over me leg !!!!!!!!!!!!
.......you owe me John!!!!!!!!!!!





...pulled up at Yetman for Fuel.......







.......had a bit of trouble gettin' any though........... .





....toured the restored Roxy Theatre at Bingara.................








..............on to Copeton Dam the next day..............only 3% full.. .
.....not too much H2O around......great camp spot though ........................vans in a circle to hold off the injuns...... .




Tables can be a bit tricky......


Plenty of wood................


......mmmmmmm... anyone for camp oven stew???











How much Bourbon in your glass JB.......... ..??

[sutcac]

...............on to Bonshaw Weir via 20 km of DUSTY dirt road ....................Called into Pindari Dam...not too flash there .....................glad I cleaned the whitewalls that morning!!!!!





.......Free camp at Bonshaw Weir ....Dave F cranked up the Aldi Genny.................




Lambshank stew anyone............. .


Sue who?

[Deleted]

Hi Clyde
There is something about being on the road and moving around different towns with our cars and old vans that cant be matched by any other form of holiday.
Sure... its great to "drop anchor"and catch up with friends while staying in a van park for a week or 2 ....
But getting out and about like you guys have these past few weeks ... seeing different attractions... historic sites ...and even the changes of scenery as you travel along , really "recharges your batterys "
No matter what crap is going on in your life ... a few days of this sort of caper soon brings some sanity back to your life.

Love that old rowvan...... Might be doing a big road trip to collect this old van in a month or so.....


similar .... but different
Happy Trails
Reddo

[kingy]

Hey Clyde, If your going to Mildura can i sit nexta you, oh and can you bring that red number bye
Your best mate ...Kingy

[bobandjacqui]

Looks like a good time was had by all I thought we would have seen a bit more water in the dams

Dosse and Clyde what can we say Kingy don't encourage them

Neil and Cheryl the new ute looks the goods

Cheers Bob and Jacqui.

[neilncheryl]

Had a great trip
Plenty of eating










and campfires




and traveling






and camping






Just doesn't get any better than that

[peteandtrish]

God we miss you guys! Life doesn't get any better thats for sure. Keep on keeping on & doing SEQ proud.

Love Trish & Pete

[JBJ]

Hi All,

(I,ve transferred this post to this thread from the Millmerran thread)


OK after we left the others at Bonshaw, we went back to Texas for an amenities break. Then back to Yetman, where we run into a couple of friends starting their round Australia trip[ from Tweed Heads]

Continued up to Goondiwindi for fuel & smoko. Run into same couple in a coffee shop. Funny thing. We've never been to Goondiwindi before last years Retirees Tour. Been there 3 times now in 9 months.

Set off for Moree. We found a nice caravan park with thermal springs , & stayed for three days. Camped next another hotrodder from Tweed Heads we've known for 30 odd years.

We took a bus tour to Lightning Ridge. Stopped at Collarenabri on way out & back. Its a shame to see inland towns dying fast.


Collarenabri main street


Collarenabri post office



Lightning Ridge was a lot like we expected, but certainly worth the visit. we toured around, visited most of the normal tourist stuff, went to 2 mines, and generally behaved as tourists.

Entry to town


Inside a tourist spot, that supposedly has the worlds greatest collection of lamps


This "monument" has been built from 20 litre drums, & the guy suposedly fell to his death while working on it. his friends finished it.


This is typical landscape in the mining area. Junk & mine tailings everywhere


Lightning Ridge PO


Opal Cave. Very commercial venture. I think this is where Daggsey did a few touch ups on signs.


Typical roof supporting structure underground. Exactly the same system used in coal mining in the mines I've worked at.


Great trip except the bus was made for narrow short passengers, unlike me. 3 hours each way was a long trip.


By this time my hot rod had decided to do its normal trick & be unco operative. Both my thermo fans had died, & it was boiling at low speed & in traffic.

So we decided to cut our trip home, So came back thru Inverell. Looked at the Transportation Museum. Well worth a visit. Then on thru Glen Innes , & down the Gibraltar Range to Grafton where we stopped overnight.
Looking out halfway down Gibraltar Range.


Cruised up to home, but looked around MacLean for an Adelma van Sutcac photographed a while back. Couldn't find it, but the sugar cane has grown & blocked vision.

Maybe later.

All in all we travelled around 1900 kilometres, at an average of around just under 4 km per litre.

It was a great trip, a lot of it spent with good friends in great old vans.

Better than sitting at home Reggie

JBJ