Then we took a long slow walk around the town (population 60), yes I know I keep mentioning it but I think the last time I was anywhere that small I would have been a child visiting distant relatives.
We crossed the highway to the gem shop and gazed in wonder at the various types of rock and how pretty they can be when polished or faceted into gemstone quality. Every colour under the rainbow, blues, greens, yellows, purple etc.
From there we wandered past the local school, which has 14 kids attending, rather comical considering what happened later in the day. Happy sounds were coming from the school, so am guessing it is a good school, with quality teachers who are well regarded by the students.
One of the places had minature horses and lots of birds in avaries to marvel at. Must say I think the King Parrot is a magnificent bird.
On the way back we wandered into the local pub and had a drink at the main bar. Rather quaint little pub and full of character with its own personality. The entire wall behind the bar is covered with saying signs. One read: If you think our barmaids are sexy, you are pissed, go home!! Made for interesting reading while I drank my lemon lime soda water.
We came home to the park in time for the arrival of a big tour bus which deposited 60 students and assorted staff who are on school camp in our nice quiet middle of nowhere caravan park, for the next three days!! That sure altered the number of children in town. It is a boarding school from Charters Towers and they will no doubt be here to do the tour of the lava tubes we saw yesterday. Great stuff for geography and history type lessons. Lots of noise on arrival but to be fair they had been on a bus for more than five hours, and they did settle eventually and the teachers had them busy for the rest of the day right up to bedtime at 9pm. Cannot complain about that. Tomorrow morning may be fun when the grey nomads have to share three showers in each block with 60 assorted teenagers!!
The other big news for the day was that it rained. The gospel according to our hosts says that it does not rain here from Easter till October. Fingers crossed it is only a bit of rain and not enough to bog us or flood us in. We do like this place but would want to move on eventually.
And after tea tonight while we were sitting outside in a nice breeze we were joined by the owner's dog, big and black of no particular heritage, her name is Molly and she wandered into our area, sniffed us and promptly curled up at Keiths feet and went to sleep for a couple of hours. Full asleep, snoring and all, then she sat up, licked us and wandered back into the dark, most probably back to the house. Wonder if she will be back tomorrow night.......
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