Moree is now all but done and dusted with us leaving tomorrow morning. It has been for the most part one of the more relaxed stops on the journey as our main reason for coming was to visit a cousin I am very close to, who has just had her first child. Most of the stay has therefore been spent sitting around chatting!
The first morning we did ride up to a rocket ship playground the kids had seen the previous night. They decided it had the biggest slide they had ever been on bar Kidstown.
Today we ventured up to the Municipal Artesian Baths. When Moree was first established a Canadian drilling company sank a bore into naturally heated artesian water and the hot water has been bubbling to the surface ever since. Only one pool was open as the centre is undergoing a massive renovation, but that one pool was enough to heat even Liz up – sitting at a constant 39 degrees.
While these waters appear to provide a certain amount to the local economy it surprises me that more hasn’t been made of them. The town is predominantly a service centre to the farming region around – predominantly cotton growing – however significant droughts prior to this year have seen it start to decline. An opportunity must exist to try and create an environment that can attract part of the population that normally moves North each Winter out this way instead.
Part of the difficulty here is that Moree has a reputation of not being the most visitor friendly location, but other town have turned these things around before.
Other than that Liz has got her baby fix and I have had the opportunity to spend time with Lauren for the first time in a few years so it has been very successful and now we ready ourselves to move back towards the coast and on up into Queensland. It will certainly be pleasant to get back to warmer evenings with the temperature back down towards zero at night even though the days are very pleasant.
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