Day 15 Saturday 1st July

What an exciting day we’ve had! We left Cunnamulla and headed for the small town of Eulo. We pulled up and had trouble finding a spot due the other 20 or so 4WD vehicles and caravans or camper trailers. We went for a short walk and found out that this is area was famous for artesian mud baths, opals and dinosaurs and megafauna like diprotodons. They had a large replica of a diprotodon in the main street. From here we drove to a very famous place….Thargomindah. This town was the first place in Australia and third in the world behind London and Paris to produce hydro-electric power for street lighting. They harnessed the bore water of the Great Artesian basin in 1891. Lighting or the town was connected daily from 5.30pm to 11.30pm. This method of power operation continued until 1951, when people in the town wanted house lighting and the hydro-power was replaced with diesel generators. There was a really interesting display in the town explaining all this and the hydro-power plant is still workable. We continued on and Rob had to have his wits about him as he encountered unsealed roads and the sealed sections of the road were very narrow. He also had to look out for emus, kangaroos, cattle and horses who were all crossing the road at various times. We arrived at Quilpie and managed to squeeze into the very popular caravan park here. It is totally booked out with many people heading to the Birdsville Big Red Bash, a family friendly music festival that is on from the 4th-7th of July. Once we’d finished setting up the van we headed to the spa area. This park has 3 large spas fed by the hot artesian water. We thoroughly enjoyed the relaxing spa. 
PS No smart comments about which guy is the dinosaur Paul...









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  1. pferorsJuly 2, 2017 at 8:11 PM

    you must be getting warm by now. its very cold and about to pour here. finally got car all wired up

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