Charleville is 800 kilometres (500 miles) west from the coast where we live and not quite half way across the state. Our plan was to continue west and basically, see what we could see.
The countryside was getting progressively harder and we saw our first live emu of this trip.
There were hundreds of them as road kill along the way.
"Lake Houdraman" is actually a largish billabong about 7 kilometres from Quilpie. Quilpie is a little over a couple of hndred klms west of Charleville. It is on a privately owned cattle station and the owner has very kindly fenced off about 200 acres of this vast property beside part of the lake and allowed free public access. All that is asked in return is that the place be left clean and his cattle not disturbed.
The countryside out here is mostly flat and dry and for those in a hurry, uninteresting. For us however, travelling at geezer warp speed, we just loved every kilometre of it,
We pulled in to Lake Houdreman just on sunset and set up camp by the lake in the dark. We woke the next morning to this view
With not another camper in sight.
16 coffees and a quick brekky later, I just had to get out onto the water
Ahhhh! this is more like it!
I even found time to set some traps for our western crayfish
Which we all enjoyed very much
