Day 41 Saturday 23rd July

Day 41 Saturday 23rd July

We left  80 Mile Beach around 8 am and headed for our next stop, Pardoo Station which was only 150  kms down the road. We checked in at 10am and set up on our sites. Pardoo station is still a working cattle station but has a nice caravan park attached. It has a store, restaurant, pool and nice &station-like& amenities. After coffee we headed for Pardoo Creek to try some fishhing. We were there for about 3 hours with Heather/Paul hooking and  bringing in the biggest fish for the morning. Steve caught a nice size fish too. All in all we ended up with 3 sizeable eating fish and a few little ones that had to be thrown back. I didn't fish but read and watched the action. It was a lovely warm, calm day. Rob, unfortunately once again was unsuccessful at catching any fish and  we all let him know. He said, on this trip he has been fishing for 9 hours  for no fish..... We are feeling sorry for him. We returned back to our vans for lunch and then relaxed. We watched a bit of footy but Rob was not able to get the Crows game on the TV so had to watch it on his phone. To make matters worse for him, they lost. During the afternoon, more and more cattle were being brought into the cattle yards next to the caravan park and by he evening there were cattle everywhere. Cattle dust and the distinctive smell of the cattle and their droppings pervaded the air. They were to be loaded and sent off in the morning.