Day 6 - Off to Charleville

First stop was Sunday service at St Paul’s, Roma. It was the first time in fifty years that Dell had been back to the church where she had been confirmed. Old friends, Fr. Ross and Laurel Burnett had travelled from the Gold Coast to preside over the Deb’s Ball on the Saturday evening. He stayed to deliver the sermon at the 9am service and had a surprise seeing us in the congregation.

We struck camp reasonably fast, stowed the kit in the car and headed for Mitchell. The hot artesian spa was not enough to keep us there so we carried on through Morvan to Charleville.

We passed through Amby where a store-cum-eatery had two seats outside the entrance. One is designated the ‘Seat of Knowledge’ and the other the ‘Seat of Bullshit’. They looked quite interchangeable.

At Charleville we chose to stay out of town at the Evening Star Tourist site on the33,000 acre Thurby Station. The sites in town had a higher density of caravans and tents than we felt comfortable with. The Evening Star site was very well set up with combined shower and toilet cabins, plenty of space, a common fire pit, a camp kitchen and a laundry. The temperature dropped to 2 degrees overnight so it was a bit cold. We might have been better setting off from Brisbane in May!