8 (4) - 25 deg C,
definitely warmer
Drive: 482km; Total towed: 8909km
After core stretches and exercises and a quick breakfast we were on the road a smidge after 8am, our SDT. We went through St George but it was still too early for mornos, so continued until we reached Surat, a town both of us have heard of but never visited, or maybe have visited but so longer ago neither of us remember it. As we approached the main street, we saw a fantastically restored traditional QLD building so decided we just needed to stop right there. We stopped opposite the Shire Hall from which a painter was just finishing up. We decided to come back after he’d left before photographing the building as deserved to be photographed on its own.
We had mornos at the Timber Crate, obviously a new cafe in town and we were not disappointed. Greg had a pumpkin and spinach muffin and Wendy had a carrot cake, together with a coffee. We then had a wander through the Cobb & Co Changing Station Museum which was very well done. It was in this museum we learned where the term of 'corduroys' came from. It relates to when pine saplings were laid down to enable a coach to negotiate the surface without becoming bogged. This term is often confused with 'corrugations' which are naturally made obstacles.
We passed through Roma (stopped for a refuel) and had lunch in Miles whilst parked outside the Miles District Hospital, a weird place to have lunch. We made our way to Chinchilla and then to Brigalow where we turned left to Jandowae. If we thought the road thus far had been very ordinary ("you need to try very hard to make a road this bad" was Greg's comment), then it was to become very, very ordinary, and very fast too. We were re-thinking our decision to come this way, but it did become a bit better after we turned right.
We arrived at the Jandowae Caravan Park only to be told they had no vacancies until Tuesday (the park is full of huge on-site vans obviously for miners or such like). Well, today is Friday. So, Wendy knew there was a Showgrounds in town so we made our way there and there was only one other caravan present. We picked our spot, set up, put our $ in an envelope (the lady was supposed to be here at 4:30pm to collect the money but had not arrived by 5pm) in the door of the van. As we were leaving the grounds for a walk, the lady drove in, so we told her where the $ were and she was very appreciative and gave us an information circular of Jandowae.
We
walked the main street and one back and saw a few pubs, an old school, the post
office, memorial hall and the Big Dingo (wasn't that impressive). The sunset
was also quite good.
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