CAMPSITE # 3 - Rocky Creek Falls - Fantastic waterfall views thru the cloudy haze & heavy rain

Leading up to the next night's stay, we need to replenish our Fruit & Vegie stocks and water supply. We found this great little Fruit & Vegie in a lovely little town called Bingara (not pronounced how it's spelt - pronounced BIN-GRA, we found that out the hard way). We bought nearly two weeks worth of F&V supplies for less than $12 - bloody amazing. Makes you realise how much of a mark up we're paying in the likes of Coles & Woolies and how little the farmers actually get.
Note to self - do not complain to the locals about wishing the weather would quit being so miserable. The lady at the F&V store proceeded to tell me that I would "get shot if you kept talking like that". eeeek.
After BINGRA we were due to set off to a remote around where we knew there would be very little chance of drinking water being available and our 200l water bladder was running very dry. So we crawled Charlie into the town's Caravan Park, sussed it out to ensure there were no nosey Grey Nomads leary about and drove straight in to top her up. If Tom the Do-Gooder loses any sleep over the next few days - I'll know why!

We highly recommend Rocky Creek Falls to anyone providing the weather is a little kinder to them than it was to us. We used 4WD for the first time trying to get out of the site up the gradually sloping muddy mud mud road - after heavy rain that seemed to last a lifetime. If we were in a Caravan or 2WD - we would have slid backwards and gone for an unwanted swim.

1 comment:

I + C said...

Tom might feel better if you get water from the town park / garden - they always have a tap and unless a sign says otherwise should be OK. Also Info centres usually have a tap and dump points (in the back of the Camps book) always do.
Looks like Charlie's engine looks like it needs a bath too! A dirty Charlie could keep Tom awake too!
Imagine a Touareg with a Bushtracker on those muddy roads - but we haven't been stuck - yet!

Can you do a map on the blog? Be good! Also good if you say where you are headed - if you know that is!

IAN