25.09.07

CHARTERS TOWERS

Very quiet and lazy day, did the washing, bought the paper and read it, that’s it.

Did go out to a Chinese all you can eat restaurant for tea.

Did call in and talk to a chap about GPS’s when I bought the paper.

Yesterday on the outskirts of the town there was a road sign to “Mount Cooper”, I asked about it today and it is a small hill probably like “our” Mount Cooper in SA.

26.09.07

AYR

Up early and went to the weekly cattle sale at Dalrymple Sale Yards to find they didn’t start til 0900 so went into town and bought the paper etc. Stayed at the sale for half an hour and found it very interesting. Cattle all sold by cents per kilo and then they are taken down to the scales where they are weighed, either individually ore by the lot depending on how they were sold. Spoke to some locals who said the prices were down

On the way we stopped at a rest area on the Burdekin River where there is a very old steel bridge over the river, a truly magnificent structure and a nice camp area however the toilets were not that clean.

On the way we stopped at a rest area on the Burdekin River where there is a very old steel bridge over the river, a truly magnificent structure and a nice camp area however the toilets were not that clean.

We went into Home Hill crossing over the amazing steel construction of the bridge over the Burdekin River. Rang Debbie’s mother (friend of Ness’s) who rang us later in the afternoon to say she had been doing night shift at the hospital. She will call in to see us tomorrow on her way home after her shift.

We stopped in the park in Ayr and nearly walked when the woman in charge got a bit rippy with us “As the office is not open til one o’clock and it says that on the notice by the door in three places”. Anyway we stayed and it only cost $18 and was a nice park with good facilities.