Mitchell to Surat

We are obviously thinking and starting to prepare for our return home to NZ in April and this involves selling everything.
Lloyd thought it would be a good idea to put a for sale sign in the window of the Landcruiser advertising the kayaks while we were in Mitchell. On Sunday a man came by our camp to look at them and returned with his son and arranged to pick them up on monday morning. We sold them for $600 which was pretty good as we paid $720 and had a couple of months of fun with them.
 When we bought them the seller suggested we sell them in a regional town as we would get a better price than in a larger city where they are readily available.
He was right!

Our camp by the Balonne River, but if you look its very muddy,not nice for swimming.

However I was still rather sad to see them go all the same.

Goodbye kayaks!!!

Our next stop was a very small place called Surat which is a pastoral town on the Balonne River. It has a Cobb & Co changing station museum and some heritage listed building such as this Warro Shire Hall.I wondered how it got its Indian sounding name and it seems in 1849 the surveyor Burrowes named it after his former place in Bombay India.