We are staying at Nathan Burdon Weir a wonderful free site just 1.5km north of Mitchell - which is 400km east of Blackall (last stop) and is either the gateway to or from the outback. We were just going to overnight but it is such a lovely place we decided to have 2 nights and leg it home in three days. We are camped by the river Maranoa which runs into the weir.
This morning there was another real frost, so at we had egg, bacon and tomato for brekkie and then took the doggies for a 6km (return) walk along the river bank enabling them to have a good swim and run, saw a 'roo in the bush not far from the path - luckily the dogs didn't.
At midday we decided to go into Mitchell to the spa - wow, it as been open only three weeks because in Feb this year the town was devastated by floods and the spa and swim pool were wrecked so they have built this wonderfulnew spa centre with one of the spas at 38 degrees andthe other one is just cold water at 16 degrees today. There was free tea and coffee and water available - and guess what, there were only 'the grey nomads' in there. We had a bowl of hot chips each (4) for lunch and it felt so good. So that's the showers now until we get back to Kingy.
The spa draws its water from the Great Artesian Basin so there is no problem with the hot water again. The Great Artesia Basin stretches for 1,711,000 sq kms across the lower central Qld. Some distance and is at a depth of 3 kms down. Obviously bores have to be put down to draw this great swell of water - Julia and the govt. haven't realised this yet or I am sure they would have taxed it.......... It feels so good to have a nice relaxing time before we do the last 700km back and the dogs have had a good swim and run.
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