9 November 2016 - Noccundra to Cameron’s Corner

Another beautiful day saw us leaving at 6.15am for the 240 km drive to Cameron Corner.  Yes, we threw caution to the wind, even though we knew it was 240km back again.

FYI - Noccundra has no internet, we can’t get radio or TV and our mobile phones are useless, so we are blissfully in the dark.  We could arrange a special internet account but why bother.  No news about the American election is OK by us.

Back to important matters.  Cameron Corner is the point at which the borders of New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia intersect.  More of that later.

091116 Today's trip, follow red line from Noccundra
to Cameron Corner

091116 We are on the correct road - phew!

The first 10km of road were bitumen and thereafter, gravel.  There were countless floodways with occasional creeks, some with water pools evident from the roadway.  We were therefore stopping frequently to go slowly through the rough, washed out sections of the road. It took us 4 hrs 30 min to travel the 240 km but that was longer than the return trip of 3hr 40min, because we stopped to take photos on the way. The road was “not too bad” by SWQ standards and it was not wet!  It was very dusty in places however.

091116 A bit stony but look at the horizon

091116 A better part of the road

091116 Not so good road

091116 Looks good but bone shaking

091116 The road was downright dangerous here

091116 Pool at a creek crossing

091116 Almost dry creek bed - road was almost
as rough at this point

The scenery was quite impressive with hundreds of square kilometres of rolling plains, covered in small trees, wildflowers in all the depressions where water flowed and greenery of various sorts.  Yes, this area too, was showing the benefits of the unusual winter rain.

091116 Wild flowers

The herbage must be good for the cattle because they were in excellent condition.  Refer our earlier discussion with the road-train drivers who were delivering 600 cattle from Western Australia to this area for fattening.

091116 Another healthy one

091116 The whole herd looked healthy

Cameron Corner consists, et al, of a pillar marking the position of the borders’ intersection.  There were explanatory billboards about Mr Cameron, the site’s namesake, the dingo fence which passes by the site, how to survive in the outback etc etc. 

091116 Approaching Cameron Corner from the east

091116 One of the several border signs at Cameron Corner

091116 A foot in each Qld and NSW and a hand in SA

091116 Plaque at Cameron Corner

091116 This is what it is all about

091116 The Dingo Fence

091116 Land Types & Soils

091116 The environment

091116 Self explanatory

091116 Who was Cameron?

091116 The Dingo Fence

091116 Like the names Merty Merty and Mt Hopeless

091116 On the NSW side of the border

091116 Gate through the Dingo Fence

091116 Nest of Fairy Martins, a type of swallow,
in the display area

091116 A Fairy Martin

091116 A Zebra Finch at the Corner

Most important though is the Cameron Corner Store.  The Store provides food, accommodation, good advice, good humour……. and fuel at $2.40/litre.  Its ceiling was lined with caps and hundreds of bank notes of many denominations.  The money is harvested from the ceiling once a year and given to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.  There is also an airstrip at the corner and a three-hole golf course, where, for a fee, you can play Tri- State Golf.

091116 Cameron Corner  buildings

091116 The developer of the store

091116 Caps adorn the walls and ceiling

091116 More caps

091116 Bank notes on the ceiling

We are glad we did the trip and saw the countryside bedecked in flowers and greenery and to see such contented cows and bulls and, without doubt, graziers.  To be able to be in three states at the one time is quite and experience