Collarenebri

Another fantastic night this time with the mozzie net of the back of the open doors and it worked a treat. Met a fellow traveler Dennis from Tassie whose kids work on north QLD on a cattle property he had just gone to visit his new grandchild and looks like it will take him some time to get back to Tassie. Lorne station was nice a growing number of stations turning to tourism to help survive. Most of these stations have already got laundries, kitchens and some accommodation from cattle musters and shearers quarters. Clean enough for most people. We were off to Collarenebri on the Barwon River which is really the Darling but at some point it changes name.

Some left over water from recent rains

We found some camp spots on the river just out of town and picked our site. We went for a bit of a canoe and fished using some worms and maybe even a Shrimp if we could catch any.


Tina caught a shrimp checked it on the line and hey presto a fish. A beautiful little Yellow Belly (Callop) so we set him free. Then using some meat another hit. This time it’s a Cod, Tina’s first out of season and under size so back he went hook and all.

Then just because we didn’t put up the annex it started to rain. We had a great Lightning and Thunderstorm and off course we parked down near the river on some slippery river mud to escape in case of danger. Most of the weather seemed west of us which is where the river comes from and radio reports were talking of rain and possible Hail. So we surveyed the area to try to find a way up the bank which was now completely slippery rive mud. So we checked the BOM site using the laptop and decided we would ride it out.