Pascoes Possie to Emu Creek Station

We only had a quick stop at Paraburdoo this morning, a tiny mining town again.

The rest of the day was spent driving, driving, driving. There was nothing else to see.

There weren’t too many camping options along the way so we had to plan ahead. Around 3 pm we had the option to stay at a big dusty camping area next to the road which was a free camp site or drive to Emu Creek Station which was 20 km on a dirt road from here and wasn’t free, but had a shower. In the end we decided to go for the station just because we find that every now and then a station stay can be a fun experience. You just don’t know what you can expect and that’s the fun part, so we decided to check it out.

The dirt road was extremely good but our first impression of the station was not the best. Just very dusty and open. We were just contemplating if we wanted to stay or not when Joyce the owner came to welcome us. We spent half an hour just chatting with here and after that there was no way back. She was just so nice and made us feel very welcome.

Luckily the campsite was much nicer then we could see from the road. There was a little water hole although the water was running low. But there were trees and heaps and heaps of birds.

We set up camp and around sunset we walked to the old, historic wool shed on the property.

When we walked back Daryl the farmer asked us if we wanted to join him feeding some cows. So in the back of the ute we went (between the hay and the dog). The real outback feeling. We helped Daryl spreading the hay and saw a little calf that was just born a few hours earlier. It was so much fun and Daryl told us a lot about life as an outback farmer. Very interesting!

When we woke up the next morning we decided to stay another night. Just because it was so peaceful. Unfortunately the day became extremely hot and uncomfortable, so not much to write about. Thankfully the nights cooled down, so at least we had a good nights sleep.