Day 6. May 10 2024. Cobar to Cunnamulla: Another line crossed.

With the rain forecast, we made the call to cut a stop out – Bourke – and drive through it to Cunnamulla – another 400k+ day. No point stopping and sitting in the rain. With a little overnight precipitation making everything more than moist, we pack up quickly and hit the road.

Well, we found the rest of the Indian ocean in the middle of Queensland and it was thumping down at us as if we had picked a personal fight with Poseidon. Slowly making our way through the 167 ks to Bourke avoiding the lakes in the divots on the roads, and making sure you didn’t slip over the other side at the wrong time and greet the front end of a road train. Bourke was welcome relief with a coffee and a sausage roll and the rain easing.

Google maps reported that the Mitchell Hwy was closed and suggested we do a 70k detour on the next part of the trip. The local police said it was all tickety boo and off we went and took on the technology giant and all of its knowledge and pitted it against the local police. We fought Google with the law, and the law won. Valuable lesson here as an extra 70ks in an already long drive and now with Aquaman pissed at us for some reason as well, it would not have been nice to find out later it was for nothing.

In arriving at the campground, we told the manager our wet tale of woe, and she just whinged that they have had next to nothing here. We set up, get some stuff organised and cleaned up and then Poseidon decided that he hadn’t finished with us yet and threw more water at us for a couple of hours. As I type this with a late afternoon beer and the rain gone and a sunset over the river about to go down, it is nice to be dry on the outside and wetting the whistle.