We leave Lightning Ridge aiming for Cameron Corner, heading for Goodooga for overnight, but one look at, first the town, then the big square paddock packed with caravans around the hot springs bath, and the foot lands on the accelerator.
So we head south west into claypan and mulga bush country. We’re getting used to the mirages that remain permanently on the road ahead and float around the horizons. The next town is Brewarrina, scene of 40,000-year-old fish traps on the Barwon-Darling River, and of the infamous Hospital Creek Massacre in 1849 when some 400 aboriginal people were killed when one of their number was suspected of killing a white stockman.
Stopping for lunch – finding a good spot is difficult! 
Our first sight of the clay-coloured Barwon
It’s a sleepy town that we pass through, but we can’t stop as we are headed for the Barwon River… maybe on the way back…
Camping by the Barwon is everything one imagines in idyllic camping. Maybe we’ll stay here forever…
Camped right on the banks 
Nancy celebrates her birthday in style 
Our first fire of the journey 
The shore trees are full of birds, the river home to wood ducks. Maybe we’ll stay forever.
Blackwattle Roaming 
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