Dunblane station Barcladine

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Dunblane station is a 15 000 hectare commercial sheep station about 8 kms west of Barcladine.

We found this place by chance, I was scrolling through a travelling  face book group I follow, around the time we decided to change our path to Melbourne, earlier in the trip and seen a post saying how much the person has enjoyed staying there .

I mentioned it to gadget and he looked into it and booked us in.

 Our campsite was remote , so no one else around, no. Passing traffic, just us , the sheep, cows, Kestrels, Emu’s and Kangaroos.

The site had power available and water if we needed it.

We brought some fire wood off the owner and it was waiting for us on our arrival.

We settled in and just relaxed.

The water tank had several nests , and we soon learned we had a baby and adult Kestrel.

We lit the fire and gadget got to work making our famous family favourite, Hobo stew. Basically it’s when we just throw any left overs we have into the camp oven with mince and canned veges and other bits and pieces, as always it was amazing , something about that Smokey flavour of cooking over hot coals.  

As the sun set i took a few photos , but then as the sky darkened i started playing with trying to take astrology photos. I’ve never really done astrology photography before , but had had a few chats with other photographers through out the holiday.

This was about the 20th photo , and whilst not perfect , I was pretty excited with it. Picture an excited older woman bouncing around the fire.


The next day we both just totally relaxed , it was pretty windy outside , there was  no point cleaning inside Ruby, because every time the door opened the dust  blew in so  pretty much we both just read, surfed the net and chilled.

After a great lunch of a bacon lettuce and Tomato wrap.

I decided i was going to give the artesian bore water bath a go. We contacted the owner and he turned the pump on and we started filling the tub.

Gadget decided it was possibly not warm enough so he lit the fire that heated the water more

You can see in the image above on the left side a 40 gallon drum cut in half , where you light the fire, and a steel configuration that the water runs through to be heated, really quite simple. 

We probably didnt need too warm it because it became quite hot and we very quickly disconnected it from the fire heater  

I think I sat in the bath for over 40 mins , just watching the cows and sheep and birds flying around. I contemplated reading  my book , but decided after losing  my phone early in the trip i was taking  no chances with either my phone or kindle.

The big fire was lit early , we again mucked around taking sunset photos, but as soon as the sky darkened i was back to my astrology shots.

This photo above was before the stars came out. 

The photo above is my favourite from that night.

We really enjoyed our time at Dunblane , we enjoyed our rest, knowing that moving forward we would have a lot of overnight stays as we head south with our next long stay being in Griffith on the 8th.

Until the next blog


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