21 10.07

WYANDRA

Woke with the kookaburras at dawn and had a hot shower with plenty of water in the basic showers at Wallumbilla Showgrounds, the birds near the billabong next to us were plentiful, a very nice spot considering the price which was nothing.

Went on to Roma where we stopped at Macca’s for breakfast and rang the kids and Bill B. We have decided we will push on for home so we didn’t stop there as planned. The country in that area is extremely dry with crops of wheat and barley dying at the flower stage and no feed to speak of. Literally hundreds of dead kangaroos on the sides of the road, at one stage there would have been 20 per kilometre, also dead emus.

Stopped for a late lunch at Charleville at a park where there are “rainmaking machines, these were a German invention that shot gases up into the clouds to make it rain! Needless to say it didn’t work. Had a hunt for a cache at same place without success.

Turned south there and went down to the very small town of Wyandra which has another free campsite again with hot showers and power, albeit very open with no trees and bare dirt ( at least there was no bindii like the last place). There were two other couples there both in motor homes, so had drinks with them. The showers were a bit different as they were two showers in one room so it was a share situation.

Today was Aunty Nell and Uncle Jim’s 80^th birthday and both A and V and Grant and Bek went to it which was good as Carol was down from Darwin and was able to speak to Bart about his move there.