2021 – Temora to Dongara
2021 – Temora to Dongara
TREK FROM TEMORA TO DONGARA
TREK FROM TEMORA TO DONGARA
We departed Claude & Brenda Fuller’s shed at Temora, went via Young to Dunnedoo via Premer to Tamworth where we met our other fellow Trekkers at Alan and Nicolette Moss for an overnight stay. Then onto Goondiwindi where we stayed for a few nights. Then onto Miles, where we met Irene & Bob Butler, who joined us for a few days, via Roma, Mitchell to Charleville Bush Camp (friends of Geraldine’s), for a few nights. Bob & Irene departed us and we travelled via Augathella to Tambo where we stayed o/night and had an entertaining night at the Chook Races at the Tambo Hotel. We visited Blackall, then onto where John Ault lived as a youngster at Barcaldine.
Longreach was our next stay for a few nights before moving onto Stonehenge for the night.
Then travelled via Jundah, Windora to Beetota Pub, where we stayed overnight. Birdsville was our next stay for a couple of nights. Geraldine & Cumber departed their fellow Trekkers for Alice Springs, via Boulia, then a bush camp before reaching Alice Springs, where we all met up again for a few nights. We then travelled via Tennant Creek, camping in Bush Camps before we reached Dunmarra, where we stayed for a few nights. Bush camp before going to Kununurra, where we had issues crossing the Border due to Covid restrictions.
We stayed in Kununurra at a friend’s place before heading along the Gibb River Road where we Bush Camped for 2 nights. Derby was our next stopover before heading to Broome, where we camped out at the Broome Race Club. We then onto Eighty Mile Beach for a 2 night stay at Caravan Park, before heading to Karratha where we stayed in the Light Industrial Area at a camp that was owned by Hammer’s friends. Then via a couple of overnight stays at Bush Camps before heading to Exmouth, where we stayed with Daemon & Gemma Bass before heading out on Bass’s boat the Kuri Pearl to the Montebellos for a few nights fishing and relaxing.
We then departed for home, where we all met up again at Dongara for dinner at Southerlies Tavern before the Hammers departed. Claude fuller and John Ault stayed in Dongara for a few days before departing south, then across the Nullarbor to their home town of Temora.
