Between Cunnamulla and Bollon (half way mark to St George), there had to be 50 squashed emu roadkill. It was very sad to see, but they must be very dumb and obviously didn't attend the road safety school as the goats. Only one goat roadkill.
Rest areas are lacking in this stretch of highway (lucky we had smoko before we left Bowra. That was because we dawdled so long along the gravel road in search of bird No. 300 ie Bourke's Parrot, we thought coffee might bring them out of their hidee-hole)... sorry, I digress .. back to the few rest areas - so we had to have lunch by the side of the highway. Lucky there are a few spaces where previous old roadworks have levelled out an area. It's like a rest area, but with no facilities.
The highway was quite busy, with a large number of heavily laden 4WDs. We wondered if the Birdsville races were coming up... but no, that's not until September. So who knows, long weekenders, travellers making the break now that the weather is cooling off.
We're resting up in St George (pop 2400), and hiding from the long weekender traffic.
There's a lovely river walk along the Balonne River, perfect for us, after a long-ish driving day. We gave ourselves a treat last night and went to the RSL for dinner; Good move, it was buffet night and only $10 for pensioners !
Here's a bit of caravan entertainment we watched this morning. This guy has so much gear on his truck.. including the back, that when he did a little turn, the gear crunched into his caravan. Yes, he has a caravan too. (I took the pic through the insect screen)
Only a few more sleeps left in our caravan. It's a funny feeling, like when you're reading a good book .. you don't quite want it to end; but you've got your eye on the next book, and you're getting a bit excited to get into it.
Speaking of books, our latest audio book is by Kathy Lette 'The Boy Who Fell to Earth'; A novel about Lucy, a 30-plus middle class mother coping alone with an autistic child. After about 10 minutes of listening I thought, good grief, delete ! But it got better. Now I'm intrigued .. how does it end.
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