Another day, another road: Corner Country

We left Tibooburra and Dead Horse Gully Campground and headed to Fort Grey, the western most camp ground in the Sturt National Park. Along the way we visited more reminders of the first Europeans to explore the area – including the grave of James Poole (Charles Sturt’s second -in- command, who died of scurvy). Depot Glen, where the explorers holed up for six months because of severe drought and Mount Poole, where a huge rock cairn was built by Sturt’s party in 1845. The rock cairn was originally built to relieve the boredom, but ended up being dedicated to Poole, as he had died before it was finished.

Leaving Tibooburra

Blaze marking James Poole's grave

Cairn on Mount Poole

View from Mount Poole, Car in background

We enjoyed a pleasant couple of days at Fort Grey. We rode the bikes across a dry lake bed to check out a blaze left on a tree by Charles Sturt. We are really getting into the history of our early explorers out here!

On the way to Fort Grey

Dinner at Fort Grey

Remains of well in dry Fort Grey Basin

Sand Dune near Fort Grey

Riding Fort Grey Basin

Outback Sunset

On the 30 kilometre drive from Fort Grey to Cameron Corner we saw hundreds of kangaroos. The reason became obvious when we got to the border where SA, NSW & QLD all meet. The dingo fence stops them from going any further. The 5,531km dingo fence is the longest fence in the world – running from Jimbour, Qld to the SA coast. It was originally built in the 1880’s to keep dingos out of South Australia. It is still maintained by boundary riders.