Lightning Ridge to Surat

The search for warmer weather was not looking good as we crossed the Queensland border and had a quick stop in Hebel. It was too cold and windy to stop for long so we jumped in the bus and kept driving.

 Originally we had only planned on doing a small drive today but because of the weather which was now raining we decided to keep driving. We ended up stopping just outside of St George at Beardmore Dam, by the time we got here the rain and wind had stopped and the sun was out. It wasn't exactly warm but it wasn't too bad either. Chloe wasn't feeling well again today so spent the whole afternoon on the lounge in the bus.
We kept moving the next morning not far this time just up the road to a great camp spot outside of Surat on the Balonne River.

We spent a couple of nights here just relaxing the days were nice as long as you were in the sun, out of the wind but the nights were freezing!! We had planned on taking it pretty steady from here on but we again changed our minds and decided to drive as much as we could over the next few days and get to Townsville as soon as possible!