Day 4 - Miles to Emerald
Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 03:50AM Last nights dinner was a beauty, we had some left over fresh salmon & asparagus. Ness whipped out the eggs from the fridge, beat some up & added some marinated capsicum, garlic, onions & spices, ended up with a salmon, asparagus, garlic & onion omelette served on a bed of fresh rocket lettuce...... really should start taking pictures of all of these dishes, could turn it into a gourmet caravan cookbook! I just want to know when we are going to start using all the canned food that we have driven 2000km so far!
After dinner we decided to check out the sights of Miles, we are now on Qld time so had to wind our watches back 1 hour. So it was dark by 730! You queenslanders should really try daylight saving, you don’t know what you are missing. Now this part of queensland has had heaps of rain so there is a lot of ground water lying around, which means Mozzies! There were heaps! It was ok while we were moving, but as soon as we stopped they attacked!
Bid farewell to Ron Howard, ill miss him... he is actually quite friendly, but turned up in the same shorts & shirt he was wearing yesterday, saves washing I guess.
We left Miles & the GPS was telling us to turn right, but we looked on the map & decided we wanted to go through Roma. So after 5 minutes of Ken (the GPS guy) telling us to “Turn around when possible”... he realised we were not listening to him & guided us to Roma.
This place is nice, for a little country town it is rocking! Busy main street & a place called Cowtown (see photo) where you can buy RM Williams shirts & real cowboy boots. Cruised the main street a couple of times with my elbow leaning out the window, trying to look like a local, the 21 foot of caravan behind us kind of stuck out though so I guess they knew we were from out of town?
Went through a little place called Wallunbilla, there were a heap of old tractors just sitting in a yard, my cousin Marc would be in Heaven. Bet you could not name these ones Marc! Oh and speaking of tractors, you should see the size of some of the farming equipment up here, it is massive!
In Wallunbilla there is a huge sign that says “BLIND PEOPLE CROSS HERE” (see pics) I was dumfounded & turned to Ness & asked her “How do they expect them to read that?”..... I was serious until I realised!
On the way out of Roma Ness told me to head Due North, I asked her what Due means? She doesn’t know, I don’t know! So family & friends, here is your chance..... tell us what Due means!
We made it to Injune and stopped for a toilet break, when I came out Ness had been bailed up by two locals (or I thought they were) turned out they were fellow caravanners, they saw us pull up & came over for a yarn.... Us caravanners are a friendly bunch!
They then informed us that the road to Rolleston was cut by water! And they were staying here (Injune) tonight to wait for it to subside.
After they left Ness & I discussed our options & I silently asked myself “What would Bear Grills do?” and we decided to push on towards Rolleston, Now don’t panic, we work in safety & would not attempt anything stupid. We said we would go & look at where the road was cut & if necessary turn back.
Turned out to be a great decision as the distance between Injune & Rolleston was 170KM. We got to 169KM & still had not found any water! It was just as we drove into Rolleston that we saw where the road had been cut, there was a couple of inches of water still across the road but the Discovery hardly got her tyres wet!
Lucky though as I would have been pretty P@#*ed off if we had to drive 170km back to Injune!
The roads in Qld are still Crap, I’m writing to Anna Bligh!
Hot Chocolate Report – Maccas again today, at least we know what we are getting (& it is not as embarrassing asking for soy) $9.60 for 2 HC’s.... I thought Maccas had to be the same price everywhere!
Interesting (or funny) stuff today.
- Miles has 2 caravan parks, one run by Ron Howard, Ness said the other was owned by Steven Spielberg? (well I laughed at it)
- Getting sick of how green everything is
- Saw our first cane toad last night
- I hate Mozzies!
- Have you ever been in a car towing a caravan doing 90 & been overtaken by a road train (3 Trailers) doing 110km/h plus on a narrow two lane road that hardly fits 2 cars!... now that is interesting! Lucky Ness was asleep
- What is Due North?
- Ness’s freaky ability to pick music (she knows songs I have not even heard of) unless she is making it up?
- The gene pool in Roma (Ness got ran over by a shopping trolley!)
Selamat Jalam until tomorrow
James
Reader Comments (5)
Hello dearest ones - Ness and James you have become part of my evening ritual - Jack in bed, mini Magnum, and catch up with your adventures, some might say living vicariiously ! Sending you heaps of love, all well here except we have just found out that Jack has almost no vision in his right eye he is so short sighted, so he'll be wearing specs the next rime you see him! Love Bon, Egg and Jack xxx
Love to hear that your settling in....I thought due north was just that due north!
Love the blog guys!
P.s. The meaning of "Due north" is as follows.
The word DUE (when used as an adverb) means "directly or exactly".
Therefore, to travel "due north" is to head NORTH with out deviating or taking coffee breaks at Maccas !!
thanks again James and Ness.
due means expecting so maybe what you would expect to be north - sounds pretty blonde now I read it back.
Your on the right track James. Just keep in your mind "what would Bear do?" and you'll be right mate.
Always climb the highest tree and follow the river.
love sandy
Awesome Boab!!