Bourke to Tibooburra

 We drove the Cut Line road (all gravel) from Bourke to Sturt National Park. It is really starting to look like ‘the outback’ here. We only saw one road train the whole way.  The road was in good condition and the landscape, which is normally dry and dusty, was green and full of wildflowers.
 

We set up camp at Mt Wood Campsite, the most eastern campsite in Sturt National Park. The campsite was surrounded by gibber plains and a small claypan nearby still held some water from recent rains. We were the only ones there!  We had an interesting bike ride through an outdoor museum – where there is an informative display of unearthed machinery from when the area was a pastoral station.

From Mt  Wood we drove through the George Loop Road, a 4WD route through the National Park. We camped at Dead Horse Gully, 2kms north of Tibooburra. The landscape was vastly different than Mt Wood. We were surrounded by large granite tors (450 million years old).

Lots of Feral Goats

We rode into Tibooburra for a pub lunch and a look around the National Parks Office and Museum. There is a lot of information about the early explorer, Charles Sturt, including a replica of the whale boat that he dragged with him because he was convinced he would find an inland sea.  

Pub featured murals by Clifton Pugh