The sky varied on the drive from St George to Roma - from a foggy start, to a bit cloudy, to quite cloudy, to a beautiful picture.
We won't talk about the lack of rest areas in this section, or the tantrum in Surat because the toilet/rest area signage wasn't forth coming. Just move on ...
Roma (pop approx. 7000) is a town in the western Darling Downs area of South West Queensland.
What's fascinating about Roma is the bottle trees.
The Heroes Avenue is a heritage-listed collection of bottle trees in the CBD of Roma, each named for a local man killed in World War 1. Only one of these plaques survives, now on a cairn which was dedicated by the Roma RSL sub-branch on Remembrance Day, 1983. The cairn is located outside the Post Office near the corner of McDowell and Wyndham Streets. It also provides information regarding the rows of bottle trees and lists the 93 names originally displayed on the trees. Some of the original trees have been replaced and some have been removed to allow for increases in traffic.
As we visited the Big Rig - Roma's information centre -
we also had the pleasure of a 'window of opportunity'; seeing this F111 on a truck. It's just amazing timing as well, here we are in awe of this plane, and wondering where it's going; then I realised that the jock on the radio was talking about the very plane we were gawking at ! This F111 is on its way to Darwin. Apparently, there are a number of F111's being distributed to various museums around the country. (Maybe you already have heard about this while we've been somewhat news challenged.)
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