Southbound – north of Charleville to Gundabooka National Park

Woken by carolling magpies and kookaburras, up with the sun, and decamped by about 8am. We drive through Charleville, stop for an excellent coffee at Boulders Café in Cunnamulla, cross into NSW where we stop for a roadside lunch.

We stop again in Bourke for ice creams and a few provisions, then sidetrack into the Gundabooka National Park, where we find three other camping groups established, but there is plenty of room for us to be almost out of sight of them. Our last bush camp? Maybe one more tomorrow night, before we cross into Victoria. It is getting colder at night – this morning was chilly for us to need jumpers.