Blogs from Charleville, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Left home and destination Molong. Well we finally got on the road at 9.50 a.m. leaving the cold and rain at home. We had a few minor mishaps for our first day, but shit happens. Not even 5 mins into our journey warwick was adjusting the brakes and due to that I spilt my coffee all over my ¾ white pants, then when we got to Mt Ousley warwick couldn’t remember shutting the garage door, so I rang glen and Leanne to check we expected Glen to give us a ribbing about that when we get home if he remembers. Then just over an hour I had a hypo, so out came the lollies and soft drink. We stopped at Lithgow for lunch then stopped for fuel at Lithgow which was 165.9c and used 38 ... read more

Well we had our first free stop Rest area 999 in Australia wide camp book 4 at Maroona rest are 22 k’s south of Bourke. We both slept well Bailey was a bit unsettles, but Warwick put him to bed with him and covered him up he settled o/k. We played rummy tiles and went to bed around 8.30 p.m. We were up at 6.30 and saw the sunrise. Marg cooked French toast for breaky, still no water so al the washing up had to wait again. We stopped for fuel at Bourke, at the IGA store the bottle shop inside store was already open and people outside were having their 1st drink for the day or maybe have continued from the night before. Only 3 garages in town Caltex on the way in was ... read more

We spent the day relaxing at Evening Star and Samuel got a taste of life on an outback cattle station, feeding the calves, ducks and chickens and riding around with Peter the caretaker on the quad bike. At 9pm we ventured into town to the Cosmos Centre for some stargazing but sadly it was one of those rare nights were the cloud came over so all we got to see through the telescope was the moon and one star. So home we went and decided to return tomorrow to visit the interactive centre in the daytime ... read more

The road to Dalby from Murwillumbah is standard expressway for most of the distance. Only after Toowoomba does it start to get interesting. The early part of the journey goes via the Gold Coast, a much over-rated tourist region of high-rise hotels and enormous houses on artificial canals created by real estate developers in order to separate Victorian retirees from their money (for the geographically challenged, Victoria is a southern state of Australia). Shortly before reaching Brisbane, the road west turns off from the main highway and starts to meander its way across the Brisbane basin towards the Darling Downs. As British people know, all true Downs are really up. Toowoomba, at the edge of the Darling Downs, is 400 metres straight up from the Lockyer Valley. It is the last major town before the road ... read more