These blogs may be getting boring to read, but we are not getting bored traveling around. Much of the scenery could be described as “blah”, but to us it is all new. It’s just hard to put into words what we have seen.
After breakfast we left our 3 bedroom bungalow after making the discovery that something had gobbled up most of our data, I suspect it was one of those (insert expletive here) Microsoft updates running in the background. That has now been foiled!
The roads were pretty straight, both horizontally and vertically although we did come across a hold up on the way south.
A properly equipped cowboy cowgirl, no ATV’s here. A bit further back we did see a cowboy herding on a motocross bike!
Not knowing what the local custom was for cars encountering cows we slowed to a stop. The guy behind waited about 30 seconds before overtaking us and forcing his way through the herd. The large tractor with double trailer gave us about 10 seconds before laying on the air horn. When in Rome etc. so we pushed our way through, the cattle seemed to accept this.
Continuing south we picked up a geocache and then hit the teeming metropolis of Capella.
There was a large war memorial in town, complete with a nearby geocache.
Despite everything, there was a coffee shop / bakery there, so all was not bad.
Another thing we hadn’t noticed before was the bottle tree. The wide trunk develops after 5 years or so and is used to store water.
We got excited a few miles out of town when there was a sign for a Scenic Lookout. This was going to be interesting as the land around us was as flat as a pancake!
After we recovered from the breathtaking view from the lookout, we headed into the town of Emerald for lunch. This was one of the best towns we had been in for a long time. There was a good variety of stores, a fabric store for Lyn, an electronics store for me and a hobby store for both of us.
After a late lunch we went in search of another geocache and then headed down to our motel in Springsure, passing a sapphire mine on the way. We then hit (not literally) the highlight of the days journey. We had to brake to avoid hitting a kangaroo crossing the road. This was the first time we had seen a kangaroo in what we call its natural environment.
Springsure was another small town similar to most that we have seen on this trip, the town and motels are pretty full of miners for some reason. This is the first motel I have stayed in that has a notice in the room asking “all guests to kindly shower and change their clothes before going to the bar or restaurant” we could be in for a classy night.