The Bourketown Adventure lol

Posted Monday 31st December Well it's been a difficult couple of days. Yesterday we only traveled 40 klms when we came to a creek just out of Burketown. The water was flowing and there was a good camp site so we decided to have an early camp. During the day 6 different cars from Burketown drove over the bridge and then turned around & went back again it was quite odd. We thought we must be the talk of the of the town. We had Internet coverage so I updated the blog and Facebook etc while the boss went fishing. He caught 2 small sharks and 5 good sized catfish in the pots he got some freshwater prawns. In the late afternoon some of the locals (white fellas) started to come down for a fish, they would fish for about 20 mins then go off again for about 1/2 hour then they would come back again. The same cars with different people over and over. There was at least 6 car's worth. This continued all evening, just when we thought they were gone back they would come getting drunker and drunker and laughing and swearing. In all this time they caught no fish, just kept casting and drinking and driving back to town. By about 10pm we decided to go. We thought it best to wait until they went on one of their beer runs, before packing up and leaving so as not to draw attention to ourselves. Unfortunately from then onwards there was always at least 1 car load there. Finally at about 2pm they all went off again, I heard them talking about coming back later, so we leapt up packed up the remainder of out stuff and zoomed out of there asap. While we were packing they were just down the road revving their engines, we could see them as we left parked about 500 metres down the road. Mad Maxish or what. We drove about 50 kms down the road, wallabies all over the place we ended up hitting 2 and a bird flew up and bashed itself into the windscreen. We were looking for another camp site all along the way but the ground was very soft at one stage we nearly got bogged on a side road, we finally camped in the driveway of Floraville Station, the dog started barking but luckily the station owner just shouted for him to settle down. We we did want an adventure but I'd prefer a little less scary next time. Today we got up early, and drove to Burke and Will's North-most camp, camp 110. We have camped here for the night. There doesn't seem to be any markings but they may be further up the road. There is so much food here I can't understand why they didn't stop for a while and rest up. I know they had to get back to the base camp, but you could easily get fat living out this way. Wallabies, bush turkey's big grey birds with red heads (gotta find out what they are) *edit I think they might have been brolgas*  loads of other birds and plenty of water and fish. I'll have to study up on what they did while they were here. I took some pix of the where their camp is marked on the map. PS the water in this river is brackish, and tidal. Fuel : We used up all but 80 litres of Diesel and have just started on the second 20 lt. container of petrol for the genie. Well mozzies are out, there still doesn't seem to be many flies, but millions of burrs. No walking around in bare feet in this camp!! Good night. :o) (oh yea happy new year)