DAY 10 – YULARA – KINGS CANYON
Took our time breaking camp this morning. With a short drive of only 330 kms there was no hurry!! We had a quick stop at Curtain Springs so the kids could see the aviaries housed there by the lady who owns the truck stop. The kids loved the talking cockatoo and didn’t want to leave until it had said a naughty word!! “Mongrel”, the emu, was not really in the mood for seven children wanting to chase and pat him, and let them know! But actually it was a really nice stop with motel rooms as well as powered and (free) unpowered sites. We had lunch at Kings Creek Station (absolutely freezing) before arriving at Kings Canyon Resort. (Of course we are in the caravan park, not the “resort”!!) I am sure it is lovely most of the year, but it is really cold and raining at the moment so we just had an early dinner and went up to the Pub for a night with “The Roadies”, a couple who sing and get the audience involved in a bit of fun during dinner.
The kids loved getting up on stage, playing instruments and singing. But I think they loved it most of all when the PARENTS had to get up on stage. David (in a cow hat) singing “Give Me a Home among the Gum Trees”, and Rob singing in a red afro wig! Pauline (in a hippy, Nimbin wig) and I (in a blonde afro wig) had to sing “Do Wa Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do”. Not pretty but the kids loved it! They all want to go back for more tomorrow night.
It was our first real experience of the outback when we realised, with seven children to feed, that there was no bread or milk here until Thursday!! (Wish we had known THAT before leaving Yulara!) We knew that things must have been bad when all the biscuits in the shop are kept in the fridge!! Beth was fine with the thought of starving to death, but when she heard that there was no internet and she could not email her friends – well, that really was too much!! Not to mention the fact that we have to close the “gates” to the toilets to stop the dingoes going in there! There’s a first for me!!
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