We are travelling to Port Lincoln in South Australia exploring the countryside as we go.
Our first night is Millmerran as we want to explore their wonderful museum and Rabbit Fence riders hut. In our case it’s the only reason we stopped in this town, a lesson to be learnt by council and local business, if you support your community services like the museum then people will visit and spend money in said town.
We stay at the Millmerran Village Caravan Park, very clean and organised with plenty of space to spread out, and plenty of birdlife on and around its feature dam.
We visit the Millmerran Museum mid morning, it is excellent, the members of the community who run this venue need to be congratulated. It’s open by appointment only, as in our case we just rang the caretakers and organised a time suitable to us and them, and they were only too happy open it up. There is something there of interest to read and peruse for everyone. The school house highlighted our age, parts of the display we both remember, reminiscing of those primary school days, no electronics, computers were futuristic and we used ink pens. We learnt about the Western Creek internment camp, recorded in a book sold at the museum. The history about the good and the bad was interesting. While our pioneering ancestors were resilient and ingenious people the damage they brought to the landscape was acknowledged, and such honesty brings integrity to the museum.
On our way out of town we visited the rabbit hut. A simple tin building, with one set of louvre windows that provided shelter for those whose job was to keep the rabbit proof fence in good order.
We continue on via the less travelled roads through Inglewood, Texas, Yetman and Warialda then onto our camp at Cranky Rock Recreation Reserve.
When we travel we try leave some money in the country towns and visiting the local bakery is an easy and enjoyable way to do this, the Inglewood Bakery is worthy of a stop.
Cranky Rock is a Gwydir Shire recreation park that caters for those who need a powered or non powered site, nestled near Reedy Creek in bushland below the granite boulder strewn hills.
For those interested in the communication systems we use, we still have HF, VHF and UHF radios, but we have upgraded from satellite phone to Starlink. We must say Starlink is easy to setup and use, we are getting speeds better than NBN and we can connect to the internet and run all our devices off the wireless modem connected to Starlink.
We finish the day under a starry night, gully breezes blowing and nightjars calling.
