Windora

First Solar farm being tested at Windora

The next morning we headed to Windora and after checking out the first Solar Farm in Australia which is being tested at Windora, we decided to set up camp on Cooper Creek and do some swimming as it was a very hot day. Cooper Creek is all part of the channel country and a beautiful place. Aidan and Cody put the nets in and caught a couple of great feeds of blue claw yabbies and 3 sooty grunter fish. The river was so full of small fish, that when swimming around or even just standing still you could feel them swimming past you, and you had to be careful not to tread on them. Aidan and Cody had great fun trying to catch the fish. Cody managed to catch one in his footy shorts after it swam inside his pants! Aidan caught a few just in his hands but wasn’t quite so lucky in that he managed to catch a catfish which spiked him and then he managed to step on a catfish as well, which also spiked him and caused great pain from the poison they inject into you.

The next day we headed to the other side of Windora to where the red sand hills are. The red of this sand was incredible, especially when looking at it against the blue sky. It was VERY hot that day and there was a lot of ground cover we had to walk through to get up to the sand hills, due to long wet season, so we decided it was wise to wear jeans and sneakers in case of snakes. Aidan and Cody got a very good idea of how difficult it would be to spend a long of time in a desert. We got a few photos and then got out of there pretty quickly!