Today we were planning on driving not too far, just to Campaspe River free camp for one night. What started out as a normal day soon turned into a circus chain of events that one could do without. The night before I had dropped a grape down the small kitchen sink hole, but believed I had cut it into pieces with a long sharp knife so THEREFORE it should wash away. Well, having washed up the breakfast things and pulled the plug, imagine my surprise when the water sat and stared at me. So you do the suction thing with your hand over the drain hole a few times and hope it works. No way!!! Terry was outside the van doing the “moving on” things when I confessed so he inserted the hose up the outside plumbing to see if it would move. Only problem – it was the wrong aperture. This caused water to blast up through the shower and basin holes. That took a bit of mopping up but soon we were on our way with a small amount of water still in the kitchen sink, he had bailed out most of it with a plastic bowl. So we drove along thinking that either the stinking grape would move and fall out or we would evacuate it somehow when we stopped at Campaspe. Well we drove in there and the choice was either train lines or main road noise, or both. On a vote we decided to go on to Hughenden, where we are now in a Caravan Park between train tracks and the road to Winton that the road trains and long-haulers use. CAN’T WIN. Anyhow the rolling circus was still in action. Upon opening the ‘van door I could smell booze very strongly. Great, the almost full wine cask had leaked over and under all our mats. They are now very wet (hosed down) and thrown over a grassy area in disgust, hopefully drying. And the grape you ask. Lost it somewhere, the drain now works perfectly. Moral of the story to all you caravanners out there, drink grapes, DO NOT WASH AND EAT THEM.
In Hughenden tonight there is a huge electrical storm brewing............later the same night.........storm was a bit of a fizzer. Not much lightning and even less rain.
28/09/2010...VERY steamy morning.........9:00 a.m. and it's 30 degrees already and very high humidity.
Hughenden has a population of about 1500 - and very few of them were visible today. Just went for a drive into town, 1 klm, and then we walked to see what exciting stuff they have for tourists...........and here is our Qld trip so far....
follow the red line..................................
Right in the middle of this Coolibah tree is where explorers/surveyors blazed their marks...the blaze has almost grown over................
One of the marks
and another
what they are hoping to do.
don't know exactly how old the tree is.
hey - look - a couple of old fossils!!!!!!!!!!!!
Flinders River - longest in Qld.
Yep - you saw it here.
see next picture.........
we saw this wandering down the street
this is really huge
wonder if they ate the fossils that were in front of them before?
this one needs a feed - look you can see its ribs!
Say how do you do and shake hands shake hands shake hands......
hmmmm, don't know if this colour is correct
look out! is it a bird, is it a plane? I haven't got a clue what it is. Maybe it's a idontthinkitsawusrex?
this one needs a feed too.
and we just HAD to have a feed here! The owner's name actually is F.J. Holden - how cool were his parents.
rotunda
inside rotunda
next few photos are inside FJ Cafe
and that's ya lot for today............maybe
If it doesn't rain this arvo, we are going to drive up some lookout and take some sunset pics.
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