All Shapes and Sizes

THURSDAY 13 JUNE 2019

Although we were cheek by jowl with other vans in the caravan park last night, everyone was very considerate and quiet so we had a good sleep and probably slept in later than we have all holiday – 6.45am!

A bit longer to pack up this morning as we had unpacked power cords and hoses for the caravan park but still on the road by about 8.45am.

Another long driving day today so not much to report on the blog.  Highlights were:

1.       Roadworks west of Wilare Bridge Road House

2.       The Boab Rest Stop actually having a giant boab tree in the middle of it.

3.       A nice lunch in freezing cold air conditioning at the Fitzroy River Lodge pub; and

4.       Just when we thought we were in the middle of nowhere with no one else around east of Fitzroy Crossing, a convoy of at least 20 motorhomes passed us heading west.

Other than that, just another 5-6 hour drive heading east and we arrived at Mary Pool 24 hour rest stop at about 4pm.  There were probably 50 vans there already but it’s a huge place so we found a quiet corner and set up our chairs and table and drank beer and ate crackers and dip and just chilled for a while.  Around twilight we went for a walk around camp and checked out everyone else’s vans and set ups and, as usual, were amazed at the sheer variety of vans on offer with some brands even Larry (who regularly peruses caravan for sale sites) had never heard of.

Back to the van and cooked up sausages and salad for dinner and watched the Crows v Richmond on the AFL app as, although we have driven for days to get ‘away from it all’ we still have mobile coverage so have basically brought the world with us.