Day 8 - Aussie Road Crew

It was a moving day today so we packed up before breakfast. We drove through Charleville and turned onto the Warrego Hwy. Just before Morven a large herd of cattle was being moved by drovers. 



In Mitchell the supermarket was open so we bought some fruit. The Charleville butcher opened exclusively for Beccy to buy meat and sausages to feed us for dinner tomorrow night. The butcher happens to be the local Mayor.

The temperatures are getting cooler as we head further south. We are camped at a farmstay just outside of Roma. We are parked near an overgrown paddock where there is at least one large pig, a cow and an alpaca. It is basic but spacious - we are not connected to power or water. Our tanks were full until Tilly turned on the bathroom tap and it took us a few minutes to realise what she had done. The plug was in the sink but fortunately there is an overflow hole. 

Our guest artist tonight was Brendan Walmsley who we have not seen before. He was brought up in Roma but now lives near Toowoomba. His songs are interesting and have a perky pace which we enjoyed so much we bought his CD. He sang Bottle Tree Lane which is about the avenue of 93 bottle trees, one for each of the men from Roma who died in WW1. The grandfather of our Roadie friend has a bottle tree planted in his memory. 

There is an amazing collection of old vehicles used as decorations in country caravan parks. We saw the nearly full moon rise in the east and watched the sun set in the west behind our van.



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