30/4/17 Sunday Drive

  Saturday was cleaning and golf day , I played golf with a crew of guys from Toowoomba who were down for the weekend to play pennants golf against Goondiwindi , they were out for a good time !! My golf was good for the first 11 holes (26 points ), before a few errant shots wrecked the next 6 holes - I finished with 33points . The golf course is quite good for somewhere that can have a lot of heat and not a lot of water , greens were great and fairways good , enjoyable .
 
  Today was time for a drive out to the west to the small village of Toobeah , there's some houses , a pub , and a grain storage facility , otherwise not very much at all . We were looking at a road that would take us south to the river again and possibly come back to town from the southern side of the river . Well we don't believe in Hema Maps when it indicates there's a road that goes across the river . Checking on a satellite map , we discovered the road stopped at a property and didn't continue over the river , so we headed back to Goondiwindi and had lunch , also fuelled up - maybe because the fuel light had come on .
  Here's some photo's of a billabong beside the road .

 From town we headed out toward Boomi - another town to the southwest of Goondiwindi - and went to Boobera Lagoon . The dirt road leading to the lagoon wasn't completely dry , with some boggy sections that we could straddle or go around . Almost at the lagoon , we found a section that we didn't want to drive through , so parked and walked in the last 300m . Quite a large lagoon that stretches out to the left and right of us .

 After a few photos , the drone came out for some aerial shots , here's one -

 Looking at the soil here - it is a very fine , almost dust , and it's easy to see how it just turns to mush when you add water . The track that we walked along had so many kangaroo paw and tail marks in it, they must have been having a party there !!
 Butterflies were floating all over the place , predominantly white with black tips on top and with some yellow underneath . A couple were staying in one spot while we watched , they may have been getting moisture out of the sand .

  Back out and toward town , we stopped at a cotton field that's waiting to be harvested - the drone came out again , here's some pics -

  The short drive off the road on seemingly dry ground , was still very soft , I could feel myself sinking slightly as I walked in to the edge of the field .
  Back in town , right beside the old bridge is Customs House where they used to collect fees/tax's from traders coming across the river into Queensland with their goods many years ago .

 This is the main street on Sunday , when most of the shops are closed , and then there is the Victoria Hotel - the owners of the hotel were part owners of Gunsynd !

 Goondiwindi is a very tidy town , well looked after , and a pleasure to be in . It's the meeting point of 5 highways - Barwon, Leichhardt , Cunningham , Newell and Bruxner . A very busy highway hub , with many truck movements at all hours of the day & night , it's also very busy now with the grey nomads heading north for winter !!
 That's it for today , here's a map link :- https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kfqr6qONxNMkoRMpwdbLOR93j3Q&usp=sharing