Monday 17th April

Our supposed rest day seeing a few of the local sights necessitated 200km of driving!  we are now experts on Burke and Wills having visited their graves and the DIG tree.  We were joined by hundreds of our best friends at every stop their little black bodies trying to get into our nose mouth and eyes.  Lucky Cathy had bought fly nets before we left. We checked out Cullyamara Waterhole to see if it was a better place to camp but it was too far from the pub.  The Russell's were right about the pub meals.  As we chatted to a fellow traveler, we found out there were floods ahead on the road we'd planned to go on, so he suggested going to Birdsville via Walkers Crossing.  With over 5 months still ahead of us, a few hundred kms of detour seemed like a good idea.