Saturday 22 July - Yowah

Before I start with today just a follow up on last night.  We went over to the fire pit for roast pork/lamb which meant we joined a new set.  The 5.30 pm dinner set.  Oh no we have joined our parents generation!   We were back at the van and in the pj's by 6.45. The food was good.  The meat had been cooked in a camp oven on the fire and was very tender. Our neighbours around the fire had just come through the towns we are travelling to so had a nice chat with them.  A pleasant evening but don't think eating at 5.30 will become a regular thing.  The caravan park is again full tonight and it is interesting to watch the line of vans pulling in from 3pm onwards.  Today there would have been 6 or 7 vans lined up in the driveway and out on the road waiting to book in.  It is just a constant stream with 90% staying only one night so they follow each other out in the morning.  We were not in the first wave pulling out but weren't the last either when we left at 8.50am.  

Another side track, we have spoken to a few other travellers who have liked Bourke and stayed there for a couple of days.  There is a port area with paddle steamers but as we had only been on a paddle steamer earlier in the year didn't feel a need to do this again.  There is also, I am told, a good museum, so judge Bourke for yourself.

Now today, we went through Eulo where we made use of their dump point.  There was a pub, general store with fuel, town hall and not much more.  Continued on to Yowah and set up at the free camp in time for lunch.  Had lunch and drove for a look around Yowah, there is a caravan park, shops selling opals and artesian pools.  There are two pools, the first was 39 degrees today and the second one was cooler but didn't have a thermometer to check the temperature.  There were three other couples there when we arrived and after a short chat to them they left, so we had the pools to ourselves for 40 minutes or so before another couple arrived who said the hot pool was only 32 degrees yesterday.  We sat in the pool and chatted to them for a further 30 minutes before deciding we had had soaked ourselves enough.   Back to the van for afternoon tea and to type this blog before we drove up to the bluff to watch the sunset.   Back to the van for the night.  The motor home nearest to us started its generator before we drove to the bluff.  Thankfully they turned it off about 8.15.  Quiet night.