2021 The first six months - new camping rig and first trip to Kooroorinya

     Hello 2021, lots on again this year, many camping trips with our new van which we bought in the beginning of the year, did some small maintenance jobs and first trip was in May. But I'm getting a head of myself.

We found middle Creek Dam again in February and went for a drive.

Middle Creek Dam

A nice half hour drive for a swim and a lazy afternoon.

This is a (not so good!) photo of our Pop-top caravan we purchased in January, many great days to be spent in this great little home away from home!

Dot at the Beach

In between all the fuss and ado of Camping etc Dot enjoys many walks on the beach.

   In May there is a country race meeting at Kooroorinya, which is where we were in 2014 acting as the camp caretakers. 

This year we managed to go to the race weekend ourselves. We departed home with our new caravan late in April, a two-day trip to Prairie and the races. We had a ball, met with new friends and old, won a little money betting (don't tell anyone)

29th April we stopped at Home Hill for a rest and travelled to Ravenswood for the night.

Halfway at Home Hill for Smoko

Had a problem with the caravan, broke a spring hanger on the back road to Ravenswood, Jim managed to rig it so we could slowly make our way to Ravenswood where we spent the night, continuing to Charters Towers in the morning where we managed to get it fixed and continued our Journey to Prairie.

Prairie Hotel - Prairie

We had a couple of days here camping behind the hotel while we caught up with tom and Andrea, who own the hotel and Ton is the unofficial mayor of Prairie.

On Wednesday 4th we moved to Kooroorinya for the races on the weekend, set up our camp and relaxed for a couple of days.

All set at Kooroorinya

First race day on Friday. 

Dot and I at the races

Saturday was as good as day one. Had to have our picture taken in front of the race sign.

It was a fabulous weekend, as all good things do, it came to an end. We departed Kooroorinya on Sunday morning and travelled all day to home.

We were going to stop at Lake Elphinstone on the way for a night or two but on trying to find a place to rest up at Belyando crossing, discovered there was nowhere to camp, we continued to Mt Coolon, to be told we could rent a room there, costing $135.00!! buggar that, so one we went over the most rough and dusty gravel road we had ever been on. Tired and dusty we finally arrived home at 7pm. Parked the rig as best we could, had a drink and both fell into bed.  10 hours on the road, glad to be home.

Well, that was an experience and a half, we hope to go again next year.

In the meantime, there are many places to see and people to meet in the next half of 2021

See you there.