Burke makes mistake!

We decided to stay in Birdsville today, It will start to cool down a bit on the weekend (under 40 on Sunday!), which will make travelling better.

So today we did the sights of Birdsville, it didn’t take long, but there is a beautiful Billabong on the Dimantina river, and the best place to swim is Pelican point, and it is complete with pelicans, and lots of other birds as well, so we headed out there. Out there they have a shade area thats great for people or cars, so we went straight under there for shade. Those who own 4wd’s with a roof cage might be able to guessthe next bit. Yep, we went straight under and the roof cage didn’t. It ended up sort of behind the car with the deisel, spare wheel and tool box attached. There were bird nests made of mud under the shade, and about 5 of these came down on the car, with eggs breaking on the windshield. Burke and Wills had arrived in Birdsville.

Anyway we did what any thinking person would do and went for a swim. After some lively discussion and witty repartee from young Wills, (He thinks this was my finest moment), we pulled every thing off, and rigged it back onto the car, (no damage to the car, Yola), and reloaded it. I have strapped it to the car, and with a bit of checking, I am pretty sure we will get it home. Jack thinks this was the funniest thing so far, but in the interests of camp harmony, refrained from laughing too much.

We went for another swim after lunch, it really is a lovely place, although Birdsville itself lacks a bit of atmosphere,(even the pub). At sunset we will visit Big Red (No not the Bouncer), it is a big sandune 40km from Birdsville and onto Boulia tomorrow. Sorry there are no pictures (especially of the Dig Tree from the other day), but, being on these satellite connected computer’s it is way too slow for something like that.

See ya.

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