The following day was also nice weather as we headed to Nevertire, just a short drive from Trangie. A long train was being filled with wheat from the local silos.
This is just a tiny settlement, but features a painted water tower, which we have seen before.
From there, it is just 19kms to Warren. You know you are in cotton country when you see a cotton gin with all the bails surrounding it.
Over the road from it there were paddocks ready for sowing the next crop, all nice and level with irrigation channels around the edges.
There was also quite a bit of machinery.
Our first road train for the trip.
Once we arrived in Warren we visited the Visitor Information Centre to grab some brochures.
Then it was time to have a wander up and down the street, followed by morning tea. The local cafe does very good carrot cake, just saying. As always, I love checking out the old shop facades.
It’s a pity the patchwork shop is no longer trading.
It was fun to see some murals.
A feature this time were signs supporting Dusty. Dusty is a 12 year old boy from Warren who walked 540kms from Warren to Canberra to raise funds for Little Wings and meet with the Prime Minister. He actually met with him on the day we were in Warren. He raised over $500,000 and the Prime Minister pledged to meet his funds raised dollar for dollar. Little Wings is an organisation that flies isolated sick children and their families to medical appointments. It is invaluable and their funding was due to run out. It took a 12 year old boy to get to meet the Prime Minister, when no one else was able to achieve that. Well done Dusty.
Back on the road, the water tower in Warren also has a mural painted on it.
To continue on our way we travelled north and the road soon changed from nice wide bitumen to a narrow strip. Fortunately, there was room to get over if you met a vehicle.
Eventually, we came to our turn off.
What surprised us was the communications tower at the intersection. It meant that we had really good internet connection at the camp site. Not what we expected at all.
About 1km on the dirt road we came to Willie Retreat.
I love the letterbox featuring a Willie Wagtail.
We had opted for an unpowered site, so we could camp among the trees. It is a rather pretty spot.
We arrived in time for a late lunch and a relaxing afternoon, just sitting around.
There were about half a dozen campers that first night.
What we did notice was the huge number of little bush flies, enough to warrant wearing a fly veil.
The sunset was a nice way to end the day.
We were looking forward to the next couple of days exploring.
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