Seeing Australia is wonderful but it's the people you meet along the way that can make your holiday... and memories to last a lifetime.
Our day started with a long chat with the friendly folk managing camping at Kilcowera, continued with a customer at the petrol station at Thargomindah insisting we must spend time in Karumba and telling us lots about it. Then there was the funny butcher in Quilpie who measured the height of my lamb roast to tell me how long to cook it for, (I promised to send him a post card and let him know how it goes!) And ended with Max running into an old Navy mate he hadn't seen in 40 years in a town with one pub, (closed), half a dozen houses and an old tin shed that serves as a veterans retreat, Adavale. Needless to say I wandered home after an hour leaving them still chewing the fat.
The tin shed was a family home built 80 or so years ago and building still stands held together with the original wire tying up the termite resistant posts to the corrugated iron. How on earth they raised children in the 50deg summers and chilly winters is incredible.
We saw many emu today, flights of budgies, a pair of brolgas, flocks of galah and corella and a few wedge tail eagles, one taking flight from beside the car as we passed … wow! I love driving through the outback.
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