The Great Central Road (cont)

 Sunday 18/5/25. Day 2.

First stop today was the Warburton Roadhouse where we all fuelled up. The price was $3.15 for diesel. The poor locals have to pay this price all the time so we really don’t have anything to complain about do we!!

The man in the store told us that he hadn’t seen a grader on the road in 2 years and we can well believe it.

We continued driving for many klms  and when we drove into the next shire the road improved as it is readily maintained.

 We stopped at the Heather Highway turnoff as this was the furthest west we had come on a previous trip.



This road goes north and joins up with the Gunbarrel Highway.

You can see the standard of road condition in this area for a Highway. Again this is what the locals have to put up with.




We continued on until we found a campsite set up by the local indigenous community. There were information bays and a long drop loo. 










Local art
Cultural information of the area.












It was a very nice camp and we enjoyed sitting around the fire in the evening.


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