Not a great day for towing a caravan! Strong westerlies pushed the cars fuel consumption up from about 14l/100km to 19.5l/100km! The highway had these huge tumbleweeds blowing across it. We tried dodging them but they seemed to wait ’til you were just about on them and then spring out in front of the car. Looked in the distance like wombats wandering all over the road.

We stopped at Brewarrina as we were keen to see the Indigenous fish traps on the Barwon River. This was a meeting place for many Indigenous tribes and some of them travelled hundreds of kilometres to get there. The fish traps are over 40,000 years old and are the oldest known man made structure on the planet. When you consider Stonehenge is only about 5,000 years old it puts it in context.

Brewarrina is also where the Hospital Creek massacre occurred. Over 300 Indigenous people were murdered there because the white people thought they had attacked and killed a stockman. The stockman turned up a few days later…

Later that day we arrived in Bourke and the start of the main part of our trip – The Darling River Run.