EMUS AND ROOS

Now at Cunnamulla, and enough said on that subject.  It's not a very interesting town.

We've travelled 200 kms today and seen many emus, but only 2 live roos (many dead ones).  The roadkill count's been amazing for the last week or so- it must have been a good season for the animals or there'd be none left at all.  We saw a few feral cats today (in different places)- we've probably sighted about a dozen of them all told.  they're a terrible danger to small native animals, unfortunately.

The first 50 kms from Charleville was fairly boring, with mulga growing thickly both sides of the road, and in this flat land there was nothing at all to see.  The mulga itself is fairly ordinary, bushy rather than trees, and so thick you can see only a few metres into the scrub.

It was a relief to get to a place where the mulga  had been cleared so you could actually see 100 metres or so.  A little later, there were huge paddocks with sheep or cattle- that's where we saw the emus.

Halfway to Cunnamulla, there's a little town named Wyandra.  It boasts a hotel which sells fuel (last fuel for 100 kms) and a post office which doubles as caravan park and grocery store.  One of the houses has a fence made up of hubcaps, which is reasonably common out here, but the next door neighbour's decoration is dozens of bras strung up along the fence.  Big ones, small ones, polka dotted ones- they ask for a donation to breast cancer research if you take a photo.  Different.

Cunnamulla has some sand dunes which they seem to find quite interesting.  For people who live in such a flat land, I suppose they are.  They're not much compared to the dunes at Williamtown, though.  

Tomorrow, Bourke.  I'm also going to put up some photos, having finally gotten around to downloading them from the cameras.