Sunday 6th Miles – Isla Gorge

We left there just before 9am and headed north.

Lake Murphy was our first stop and that was in time for lunch, great camp spot but no water in the lake.

Now onto Isla Gorge which was not far we arrived there about 1:30pm very rocky camp spot but managed to find 2 spots.

We took a little walk out to a lookout.

Happy hr watching the sun go down, then had a lovely dinner sitting around a lovely little fire. 
 
 

Saturday 5th Roma – Miles

We eventully got away from camp about 9:30am as Pam found someone to talk to at the showers for ½ hr.  We did not have to get away too early as we only had 140ks to do.

1^st stop was Wallumbilla Railway station so we had a look around there for a little while as they had some info on a train crash in the 1950s.

Now onto Yuleba and out to Judd Lagoon 13ks from town and it was a great spot we had morning tea there (good camp spot).  Down the same road about another 15ks was old Yuleba no ruins left only a plaque.

Back into town and heading to Surat we drove about 15ks to find Native wells and we had lunch there as the day was moving along.

We arrived in Miles about 1pm and we found the info centre which was the historic village also so we spent a couple of hrs looking around there.

It was too late to travel anywhere else so we found the show ground and stayed there for the night.  It was quite a cold night so early to bed. 
 
 
 

Friday 4th Roma

We did not have to get up early today as we were only going to look around Roma, so we went down the main street looking at the shops Pam had to buy 6 litres of vinegar to put in their water tank as it was tasting not very nice.

We went back to the camp with pies for lunch and the vinegar and they empty the tank and filled it with the vinegar.

We did another trip into town as we had to go to the visitors centre and we showed the Simpsons some of the sites around the place.

We decided to go out for dinner and found a nice pub and the meal was fantastic

Biggest Bottle Tree

Thursday 3rd Roma

Today we are moving from the caravan park to the show ground waiting for the Simpsons to turn up. 

We took another trip out to the sale yards to see the cattle that were there being weighed and sorted out into pens.

Pam & Jack arrived about 2pm and they had a bit of trouble setting up as Pam wanted the camper in a particular direction so Jack got out of the car after a lap around the ground to let Pam park it where she wanted it.

Now all settled we sat around drinking tea, then as the afternoon moved on the boys had beers. 

Wednesday 2nd Roma

It was -2 this morning and Paul had to get up and take the car in for a service I stayed in bed a little longer before dragging myself out to do the washing.

We went for a drive to the cattle yards to find they were loading the cattle onto trucks so we watched for some time and it was very interesting.

I did some shopping as we are not sure where we will venture to after we leave here.  We are thinking we might head to the coast as we have a small problem with one of the blinds and might call into Australian Offroad to get them to fix it.

Very cold again tonight so we are staying inside. 

Tuesday 1st July Mitchell – Roma

This morning was the coldest spot in Qld so it was hard to get out of bed, mum & dad left before us as they are on there way home today.  We only had 86ks and could not check into the caravan park until 11am.

We arrived about 10:45 and able to get into the park straight away.  I did some of our washing as we had a lot and I would be doing more tomorrow anyway.   We had a drive around Roma so we checked out the show ground to see if it was going to be ok for when Pam & Jack arrive.

The sun was out and the wind has dropped for now so we spent the afternoon in the sun just relaxing.

Monday 30th Charleville – Mitchell

We have decided to move onto Mitchell and it was very cold this morning.  A little out of Morven which was about 10am we came across about 11 kangaroos jumping all over the road we thought that we were safe when the next thing a kangaroo came back on the road and we have now hit the 1^st one of the trip.  No damage to the car not sure of the kangaroo we did not stop think we ran over its legs.  The wild life has been bad out here so we are lucky we have only hit one.

Arrived in Mitchell about 11am and glad to be off that road.  Mum & dad decided to have one last night with us so we went to the Neil Turner Weir it was crowed but we found a spot in the sun for a little while.

It was still blowing and very cold all day so Paul & I went for a walk around the place looking at the other vans and trying to find some bird life.

It was very cold that night. 
 

Sunday 29th Lake Houdraman – Charleville

We had a big day today 200ks and the wind has dropped slightly still very cold though.  We had morning tea at Fox trap roadhouse (Cooladdi) half way between the two.

We arrived in Charleville and met mum & dad at the Cosmos centre and we had our lunch there.  They decided to travel onto Morven and we went and booked into the Charleville Bush camping park, what a great little park only opened in the winter.  We had happy hour beside this very small fire and we nearly froze as I don’t think the camp host know what a fire is.   Now it is time for dinner out at the renovated pub in town and then back to camp to see if the fire has got bigger.  Paul ventured over to the fire so I went a little while after had a great night with some of the people there. 

Saturday 28th Quilpie – Lake Houdraman

Today we have an even bigger day 4ks as we decided to stay out at Lake Houdraman   which would have been really nice if the wind would stop blowing a gale.  The sun was out which was nice and worm but the wind was terrible.

This morning we managed to pump out our toilet with no dramas and it turned out to be very easy.

Spent the day catching up on my blog as watch the water for any bird pictures.