Easter 2012 - Currawinya trip Day 1

The alarm woke me at the ungodly hour 3:45 am. I threw the last of the bags into the car and had left home by 4am. Driving was easy as there was very little traffic on the road. I went up the highway to Nerang then off to Canungra, Beaudesert and onto Boonah and finally the main highway near Aratula. Didn't stop at the Aratula Bakery for a change. A good run up through Cunningham's Gap and onto Warwick now that most of the road repair has finished. Then onto Goondiwindi (about 8:15 am) where I met up with Josh, Kemsley and Adam at the BP/Maccas to refuel the car and the body.
We left Goondiwindi about 9am and headed for St George where we did some last minute shopping and then headed onto Bollon where we stopped at a pleasant little cafe for lunch. Leaving here about 1ish we headed onto Cunnamulla for our last refueling stop.

Refeueling at Goondawindi

 

We saw quite a lot of emus in the paddocks along the road, with one getting very inquisitive about my car, so that I had to stop to avoid it. Onto Eulo and we turned off onto the dirt road to Currawinya just past the town. The road was is quite good condition but the dust meant we were strung out a fair bit so that we could see the road. We missed the turn to our camp site and ended up down the road a few kms until we realized we had to turn around, of course we hadn't actually checked the map before this. 
After registering and paying our camping fees we found Wayne and Anne and their kids and proceeded to set up camp. This was just after 5pm and the temperature was about 35 degrees, although it was very dry so it didn't feel that hot.

Corni Paroo Waterholes camp site more - 2

 

There was lots of annoying flies around which were replaced by annoying Mosquitos as the sun went down. The Bushman's kept them mostly away. After getting camp set up we sat down with a well deserved drink and watched Curtis bring in a varied catch from the creek, carp, perch and turtles. The carp were summarily dispatched, the perch kept for eating and the turtles released under their own recognizance to not get caught again.

After about 13 hours of driving and just over 1100 kms I was feeling fairly snoozy, so dinner was a couple of Easter eggs and after sitting around chatting for a few hours I headed to bed for a very good sleep.