Next morning it was still raining with occasional breaks, so I took advantage of one of the breaks to demolish my camp in record time and get it all put away before I or the stuff got too wet. Then by 7am I was in the car and driving away. Farewell beautiful Carnarvon!
I reached the main road without incident but had seen a small group of emus foraging in a field next to the road. On the road just before Rolleston my phone which had been lying dormant for 5 days suddenly went berserk and 65 messages came in!
I headed North towards Emerald. I had thought that I would stay in a caravan park at Clermont that night but after replenishing my supplies in a huge Woolworths supermarket in Emerald I decided to go further and to blow my kids’ inheritance by having a cabin instead of a tent for the night.
North of Emerald there is not much in the way of civilisation before Charters Towers so I pressed on to there. When my phone had come to life I had phoned a campsite there and booked myself a cabin. The journey was long and not very exciting. On the wild life front, a kangaroo had hopped across the road in front of me and I had slowed down – luckily because the second kangaroo followed his mate and was very close in front of me!
I also saw a goanna crossing the road and then an Australian Bustard came out of the bush and stopped to look at me right in the middle of my lane! Stupid bird. Fortunately there was no other traffic so I was able to swerve out of its way.
I got to Charters Towers about 4.30 after nine and a half hours of driving, checked into my cabin and relaxed! I had no clean clothes left so I had to do some washing the next day. I spent a bit more and booked in for 2 nights. Lazy day tomorrow.
The wildlife is determined to get squashed obviously!
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