25 June 2014
Glengyle Rest Area – Upper
Limestone Creek Rest Area north of Boulia (300km)
It was a cold night and a very brisk morning. I went to the hide in the morning as the sun
came over the horizon. Flora was already
there. She said birds were coming and
going all the time – it was like their flight path through this area of teh
creek..
Just after breakfast we heard several dingos howling. It was a very loud and unusual sound. After packing up we started off but Flora
called us to go back a little bit to Cuttaburra Cossing. What a sight!
Flocks of swallows were flying and swooping in waves up and down in
beautiful waves in the skies jusy over the road. A lone pelican was sitting in the creek on a
log on one side of the creek.
On the
other side in the wetland amongst brightly yellow flowers brolgas were sunning
themselves.
Cows were grazing nearby.
It was just magic.
We continued on past Glengyle station, the Toko channels onto
Bedourie. In places it looked very
desolate.
As we were now on bitumen we
decided to inflate the tyres at Bedourie, the home of the camp oven.
We saw the last of the Dreamtime Sculptures here.
From here we continued on to Boulia throught vast floodplains, grassy
plains and gibber country. After lunch
we continued on to a lookout that just reinforced the vastness of the
land.
In Boulia we spent some time trying to get onto the internet whilst Bob and
Žydre
went to the Min Min show. Flora and we
had been to this show when each of us had been in Boulia before. Boulia seemed not as ‘prosperous’ as it was
when we were here two years ago.
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