21/7 From Windorah to Cunnamulla on the way home

We left Windorah early morning and decided to try to get to Cunnamulla by the end of the day.  Just on the outskirts of Windorah is a solar farm operated bye Ergon Energy.  I haven't seen one before so we stopped to have a quick look.  It was set up in 2009 and supposedly generates around 360,000KW Hours per annum saving the town 100,000 liters of diesel fuel.  Not all of them were in operation, but each dish focuses the solar light onto a cell in the centre that generates up to 26kW.  Not bad at all!

Just further out of town we cross the Cooper creek.  It's a famous river which only runs every few years.  In this area is a huge waterhole which supplies Windorah with all it's water.  It has never run dry according to the locals.

We had a brief stop in Quilpie, whereby we had to change the tyre on the Camper Trailer.  It had almost leaked all the air out!  As I had two spares it was only a matter of using one of the spares.

As we left Quilpie we drove down the Thargomindah road.  Just after the turn off there is a short road to what is called the Baldy Head.  It's a rock outcrop that is easy to get on top of via a short walk.  From there it's a great view across the flat plains and across to Quilpie.

Along the way we saw lots of cattle and Emu's but not a lot of sheep.  The Cattle and Emus tried to hog the road on occasions, which required us to slow down and give way!  We could also see lots of road kills.  They were mostly dead Kangaroos.  We only saw couple of dead Emu's and at least one dead feral pig.  I guess the Kangaroos know far less about the road rules than the Emu's and the feral pigs!

We got to Cunnamulla late in the afternoon.  Thus we decided to go to a Motel rather than camping.  We found a nice one called the Oxford Hotel.  After settling in we walked to the local pub and had a typical Ozzie pub meal and chatted to the the locals.  Then it was off to bed for an early start again.

The solar dishes outside Windorah

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the .....

The Cooper Creek

Baldy Head, just outside Quilpie

The view from Baldy Head in an Easterly direction

The view to the West, Quilpie can be barely seen among the trees

Kylie also climbed Baldy Head

Cattle hogging the road

Even the Emu's hogged the road!