Sunday...27 July 2014

Up super early, god I hate free camps, they can be so noisy first thing in the mornings.  This is caused by the fact that everyone goes to bed early so that they can save fuel in the generator or so that they can save on their available 12v power which means they also get up super early after an extremely long nights sleep.
There are the bright and breezy early risers who cheerfully, (and loudly), wish everyone good morning, there are the rattle clunk and bang mob who must be the grumpy type as they get out there and rattle and bang everything they can find as they go about their pack up, with absolutely no consideration to the other campers who may be still asleep, (a case of if they are up so can everyone else be!) and then there are the stealth merchants, the ones who take off at the crack of dawn, but usually they own the noisy vehicles so their quiet departure is sure to wake a few of the hardier sleepers.
We belong to the normal mob, the ones who see no need to rush off early enough to take breakfast out the road to the kangaroos to see them through their busy day of scaring the living daylights out of tourists! We leave camp around 8.30 am when we are reasonably sure the kangaroos are done partying and have gone home to rest before they begin again come sundown. This way we have a fairly pleasant days travel without the constant stop start required along kangaroo alley!
Today it was harder and harder not to feel sorry for the dreaded kangaroo. This part of the country is in severe drought and the kangaroos are drawn to the roads to lick the night dew off the bitumen and to feed on the little amount of green feed that grows on the side of the road, and then along comes the three and four trailer road trains who are not going to stop, in fact they simply cannot stop in a hurry.
But I digress. We came down from Blackall to Charleville. And oh the welcome, they were pleased to see us and we were pleased they had remembered us. We promptly put our names down for dinner tonight and lucky us, it was roast lamb with all the trimmings and hot damper with jam and cream for dessert. Home cooking and entertainment. Wonderful. They have a resident country singer and he is quite good.