SEVENTEENTH DAY – SUNDAY 25TH JULY
Happy 29th Wedding Anniversary. X X Graeme gave me a nice surprise of a ruby necklace he had bought from the Rubyvale Mine. It was/is beautiful. We didn’t have breakfast, we packed up and left to go to the Sapphire Sunday Market. We had a look around, bought a couple of things as well as breakfast then continued on our way along the Capricorn Highway. The ground is very rocky in this area and a lot more mountainous than I expected. We drove through Drummond Ranges were there were a lot of cuttings through the hills for the road and the rail track. On the other side of the mountain range the terrain changed dramatically to open grassy plains with small shrubs and a few bottle trees. The terrain changes so quickly out here. We arrived in Alpha at 10.20 then continued through big trees and bushland. This is where we drove along one of our first straight long roads. There were lots of little ant hills/mountains along the way scattered throughout the bush and it became hilly again with lots of dead trees but new trees coming up everywhere. In Jericho which is on the river Jordon we had a cuppa and short break and looked at the sculptural instillation of the Battle of Jericho made of big slabs of rock. After Jericho we saw many orange grevillea type plants which were all in flower and looked fantastic intermingled with the wattles and other bushes and trees. It has been cloudy all day but quite warm – about 25 deg Celsius. There were also lots of road kill in this area probably due to the fact there is a lot of bush and lots of road trains and trucks along this route during the night. We stopped in Barcaldine where we looked at a dead tree they called “The Tree of Knowledge” which they have build an amazing structure over the top of it to protect it. We had lunch here and guess what this town has six pubs in about 400 metres. No we didn’t have lunch in a pub we had lunch in ‘The Snail’. We continued on a brown road which were the terrain became flat and dry grass lands with small bushes. It is becoming to look more like the outback now. We found a great camping spot for the night with only a couple of other travellers and it is so big that you can’t even see them. Graeme collected wood for a fire that we’re going to cook our vegies in and it looks nearly ready to put them in. At the moment I am sitting outside under the clouds looking at the fire and typing this diary and sipping on a glass of wine. What a Life!!
Happy 29th Wedding Anniversary. X X Graeme gave me a nice surprise of a ruby necklace he had bought from the Rubyvale Mine. It was/is beautiful. We didn’t have breakfast, we packed up and left to go to the Sapphire Sunday Market. We had a look around, bought a couple of things as well as breakfast then continued on our way along the Capricorn Highway. The ground is very rocky in this area and a lot more mountainous than I expected. We drove through Drummond Ranges were there were a lot of cuttings through the hills for the road and the rail track. On the other side of the mountain range the terrain changed dramatically to open grassy plains with small shrubs and a few bottle trees. The terrain changes so quickly out here. We arrived in Alpha at 10.20 then continued through big trees and bushland. This is where we drove along one of our first straight long roads. There were lots of little ant hills/mountains along the way scattered throughout the bush and it became hilly again with lots of dead trees but new trees coming up everywhere. In Jericho which is on the river Jordon we had a cuppa and short break and looked at the sculptural instillation of the Battle of Jericho made of big slabs of rock. After Jericho we saw many orange grevillea type plants which were all in flower and looked fantastic intermingled with the wattles and other bushes and trees. It has been cloudy all day but quite warm – about 25 deg Celsius. There were also lots of road kill in this area probably due to the fact there is a lot of bush and lots of road trains and trucks along this route during the night. We stopped in Barcaldine where we looked at a dead tree they called “The Tree of Knowledge” which they have build an amazing structure over the top of it to protect it. We had lunch here and guess what this town has six pubs in about 400 metres. No we didn’t have lunch in a pub we had lunch in ‘The Snail’. We continued on a brown road which were the terrain became flat and dry grass lands with small bushes. It is becoming to look more like the outback now. We found a great camping spot for the night with only a couple of other travellers and it is so big that you can’t even see them. Graeme collected wood for a fire that we’re going to cook our vegies in and it looks nearly ready to put them in. At the moment I am sitting outside under the clouds looking at the fire and typing this diary and sipping on a glass of wine. What a Life!!
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