Bourke

  • West to Bourke

    From Goondiwindi we headed south-west for Bourke, a town on the Darling River which we’d visited before. Instead of taking Google Map’s obvious route we went for another option, using roads we hadn’t been on before. All was well until we realised that some of the road would be dirt. We didn’t want to do…

  • Back ‘o Bourke

    It’s an old Australian saying. Back o’ Bourke there isn’t much. You’re right out in the scrub, beyond all hope of redemption. But as it happens, that’s not how it worked out for us. We decided to head for home once we arrived at Port Augusta, which meant we avoided the south east corner of…