Charleville 2015

Arriving at Charleville mid morning Nicki speaks to the repair man, arranging for a meeting at about 5pm at the Cobb and Co caravan park on the outskirts of town for the replacement part to the door to be installed. Later, visited the Information Centre/ Cosmos Observatory to book in for the "Aboriginal Night Sky Stories" at 6pm. From there we find the Cobb & Co caravan park and book in for one night, paying $22 each for a non powered site...a bit rich I thought....but is close to the home of the repairman. I ordered a taxi for a return trip from the night sky stories, figuring it would be nice to be a passenger for a change. And there you go again...things just don't work out how you think sometimes.
Another part of Nick's door falls off, bugger! and the repairman was running a little late, I panicked and cancelled the taxi, it turned out we would have had minutes to spare of its arrival.
The door handle all fixed and Nicki happy, I drove the van out to the Observatory for the hour of night sky stories, leaving poor Harry alone in Nicki's van, not really, he was very happy to wait in a warm bed. Ruby got to come with us for the ride.  

Needing the focus on the dark sky's and not the stars, looking from the Coal Sack just below the southern cross, that really dark spot is the head of a dream time Warrior and following the dark to the right is his shoulders/arms and the Coal Sack is also the head of the emu with the dark areas flowing to the left of the cross is its body and legs. When the legs disappear at a certain time of year, the male emu is then sitting on eggs and is the time to collect only 2 eggs from a possible 6. 

At the information Centre our inquiries were made regarding the road through Quilpi and Cunnamulla to the Dig Tree as these are the two ways to arrive at this destination from Charleville. This being the 'Natural Sciences Loop' covering towns like Eromanga, Noccundra, Thargomindah, and Eulo, would be an interesting trip no matter which way we went.
Luck would have it that there was a big burly police officer with brass on his shoulders visiting the centre, he told us the road had been closed near Eulo about 60ks west of Cunnamulla due to run off and flooding of the Paroo river and Yowah Creek. He also said moving off any of the roads to give way to the trucks would be dangerously muddy. Mmm...I feel a trip change coming on here and have to admit I wasn't happy, I tried really hard to suck it in, though I felt like spitting chips!! Bugger...

The next morning we halted for cuppa and cake for morning tea in the main street of Charleville after Nicki had another problem, the swap and go this time, the new bottle was larger than the last and the holding strap wouldn't fit around to secure it.  I think Nicki felt a bit over it and I also gave in to the Universe telling us to turn around and go south on our return journey home. A quick discussion was had and we were out of town travelling toward Cunnamulla.