We are exploring the country and rivers between the border of Queensland and New South Wales, travelling to Lightning Ridge, the home of opals and to Culgoa National Park on the border, then into Currawinya National Park where Bilbies are kept safe from cats and foxes, behind a predator proof fence.

Our first camp is at Broadwater Campground in Sundown National Park, there are plenty of birds and the Severn River is higher than what it was at the end of March when we last camped here. The night sky was clear with the Milky Way putting on quite a show.

We leave Sundown and travel along the Bruxner Highway for a short while, then cross the Hynes Bridge to drive the Riverton Road which follows the Dumaresq River on the Queensland side. This is a very pretty drive through rolling vegetated hills and farm land looking at the New England Tableland in the distance. The road terminates at the town of Texas, this is a very tidy and picturesque town one we intend to revisit and spend more time exploring. It’s then onto Boggabilla, Boomi and Collarenebri. This country is a mixture of wooded grassland and farming country, where the old growth trees have been kept, it really makes for beautiful country, most of it well grassed and plenty of water is still lying in table drains, oxbows lakes and many rivers and creeks are running.