Next stop was St George. We had planned to stay here a few days but there is no free or low cost camping. There are signs up everywhere about no camping. No longer RV friendly town it seems. We used to camp down by the river, which was a great spot.
We did a bit of a walk around, called into the info centre. Walked up the street and had some lunch. Drove around a bit. Did a bit of grocery shopping, filled up with fuel. Then headed to the hot pool, $8 or $6 concession when were where there.
Nice clean pool at 37 degrees.
We decided to move on to Dirranbandi. The free camp down by the river was mostly full because of wet boggy areas, there were only a few dry spots. We were told more rain was coming that night so we decided to head back into the town area to the truck spot.
We talked to one of the truckies asking if it was ok for us to stay here, due to the wet. He was great and said no problem. Everyone was very friendly.
Goodooga in NSW, was a place we had heard wonderful things about and we were not disappointed. There is a big parking/camping area on bitumen /gravel. Showers, toilets, bins, drinking water, 1km walk into town all free.
Large gravel camping area.
The best part, a hot pool with easy access. It was a little hot at times have to say.
Lovely hot pools.
It was great we were on solid ground as we got a few good downpours while we were here. With rain everywhere we decided here was a good place to stay for a while, 5 nights in total.
Just a tad wet, but still having fun.
We met a really lovely couple here, who were very encouraging to me and had a big positive impact on both of us. They were camped next door to us and invited us inside on one of the cold wet days, even Jess was welcomed. We had some very special times with them over the 5 days, including around the campfire with some other campers.
Sitting around the campfire.
Some good tucker there.
The local Aboriginal community put a fun raiser on every Saturday night with a meal and funds to go towards some community project. When we were there, it was to send the local football team to Melbourne.
Sunset after the rain.
For $10 you could have rice with curried chicken and veggies, fried scone, trifle or dumplings with custard. We just went for the trifle. Very generous servings, very yummy and really nice friendly people. Highly recommend. A way to give back to the community for using the pools and camping area for free.
We thought this was rather funny, local giving the car a wash under the hot bore water.
I know Chris would have loved it here and he would have been glad we stayed here and it is some place we would definitely go back to.
Lovely outlook.
Reluctantly we moved on, we had to as we had a booking at Charlotte Plains. Back through Dirranbandi, filed up with water and Judy with fuel.
Live long and Prosper.