17th September 2024
Distance: 96 Km
Fuel: 57 L
Was up at my usual time. After a shower decided to wash my dirty clothes as the day promised to be quite warm. In fact by 9am the day was already warm despite the night being near freezing.
Drove the 7km to Arrest Creek where the Kenniff brothers were arrested are killing two policemen. They are claimed to be the last Australian Bushrangers.
On the way back noticed a single bushranger in the same style as the sculpture at Arrest Creek.
Next drove to the camp site of Thomas Mitchell the surveyor trying to find an overland route to the Gulf of Carpentaria. It was actually about 35 km outside town along a mostly single lane road with a couple of kilometres of dirt road to the actual site.
Filled up with fuel for tomorrow once back in town, then called into the local bakery for their s lunch special of a “pork and gravy roll with chips”. I quite enjoyed it.
Mitchell is a nice little town though the number of vacant shops along the main street show that it is not experiencing the best of times.
The river reached a record level in 2012 flooding the town.
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