THIRTIETH DAY – SATURDAY 7TH AUGUST
Today we had pancakes for breakie with golden syrup. We left at 8.45 southward into the wild blue yonder. This was a travelling day as we have already been north through this area a week ago. As we moseyed along, we saw what we thought were clouds in the far distance but as we got closer we realised it was smoke from a bush fire. We couldn’t see the fire but there sure was a lot of smoke. We travelled about a km then it was back to blue skies. We topped up our fuel in Dunmarra and had lunch under a shady tree. While we were getting fuel a friendly old guy who was painting the service station had a chat, he was a great character. He heard the music we were playing and wanted to know what it was. My new favourite music by ‘Jabaru’. He also told us he was on a holiday and picked up the painting job. He left home with his wife and rented his house out and told the family “we’re going on a holiday, don’t know when we’ll back.” We finally arrived at Renna Springs – a roadside house come pub come caravan park come truckies stop come tradies stop come road-workers stop. We got a non-powered site and we are camped by a biggish pond with a very big windmill on an island in the middle of the pond with geese. We ended up buying a pub tea as both of us liked the idea of having a night off cooking and washing dishes. I can’t believe it’s only 8 pm. It seems so much later and Graeme has fallen asleep on the couch!