Saturday...22 September 2012

Dalby to St George.
We had thought we would go to Cunnamulla today but it would have been a good idea to look at the map. It was 320kms to St George and another 291kms to Cunnamulla. By the time we got this far my bottom was complaining. Beautiful sunny day and after yesterdays storm that was nice, but the road was a disgrace. It was sealed but had more bumps in it than any dirt road I have ever been on! We shake, rattled and rolled most of the way. I should have whiplash from the jerking of the caravan hitch and it is on an air bag!
Still and all the day was not wasted. We did see two push bike riders! They were leaving Moonie when we were. Now there is a town that was a surprise. Most of us have heard of the Moonie gas fields, so we rather naively expected a nice big town. We stopped at the local Information Centre which is on one side of a nowhere crossroads with a fairly big petrol station on the other side. And according to the nice old dear in there we were smack in the middle of town! A couple of sporting clubs, a post office, the servo and that is it!
Along the way we ran parallel with part of the Dingo Fence.  We also think we ran over one of our native lizards. This is not a normal event for us. We are generally able to straddle or totally miss them but this one moved too late. We also saw dead kangaroos, an emu, a pig and a snake. The country was a mix of scrub, grazing and crops. Wheat and cotton seem to be the go.