Rockhampton to Wallabadah via Meandarra

free camp at Caliguel Lagoon

Caliguel Lagoon

After a record pre Christmas  week trade with the help of our 2 new staffers Gunner and Epson we locked the doors and headed home to prepare for the trip to N.S.W. Saturday morning we woke to drizzly rain the fist we have seen for 4 months that did not deter us we packed our Hobie Outfitter in the rain hooked up Reality (our Bushtracker van) and headed south west to the start of the Leichhart highway and on to Taroom , Miles, down to Condamine then turned onto the Meandarra road and made camp at Caliguel Lagoon 7 km from the turn-off  Caliguel Lagoon takes its name from an early Pastrol Run south of Condamine. A portion of this lagoon was once home to a sheep wash pool where the sheepskin fleece was cleaned of dust and dirt by the way of swimming the sheep though the water, washing it with soap as it went

Caliguel Lagoon

We made camp for the night at the lagoon and settled down for a good nights sleep.

Meandarra

The next day Sunday we headed down to Meandarra to check out the free camp there. It is quite a good one on the banks of the river

Meandarra free camp

Meandarra 

Then onto Gonndiwindi where the Leichhart highway ends, Narrabri, then on down to Wallabadah which is south of Tamworth about 10 km out of Willow Tree

Wallabadah

Wallabadah

Wallabadah is the memorial gardens for the First Fleet the names of all the convicts and seaman have been carved in stone for there respective ships.

Over the next few days we will be having Christmas at my brothers place in Newcastle  then off to Camden for a day to see friends, then back on the road Saturday and back up to Nundle and on to Chaffey dam for my next post internet service permitting