8 July 2024
It’s been a while since I last wrote and whilst there have been many adventures since my last musings there has not been one big event that motivated an article in its own right. That has now changed we are on the road again, this time for a couple of months.
Over the past many months we have travelled to Queensland and down to Victoria. We have visited gin distilleries in remote valleys in the hills, liquorice and chocolate factories in small country towns and railway museums in what were once bustling towns.
We have followed Google map directions into some remote areas, so empty there were street signs for shearing sheds. There was even a town with a hand painted basket ball court in the main street. Now that’s a quiet town.
It is sad to see what were once bustling country towns reduced to empty shells with antique shops and government agencies filling the old buildings. The pubs no longer filled with men at the end of their working day. The end of steam trains along with highly mechanised agriculture and bigger farms has brought these towns to an inevitable decline. Ignoring the obvious value in visiting a gin distilleries, many of these towns do have a history to tell from Devonian fish fossils through to WWII amphibious aircraft training. You’re just never sure what surprises the next town has to offer, and maybe it’s just the quality of their homemade meat pies.
We have discovered winter isn’t a great time for travel which just goes to show you are never too old to learn something new. That said we were kind of suspicious that camping in winter might be a challenge, and so it is. Regardless we are on our way west and will in a few days tackle the emptiness of the Nullarbor Plain as we head towards Western Australia. Stay tuned…
A Traveller's Tale 
Loved the ‘First Aid and Detonators’ box. It occurred to me, as it occurred to you, what if they confused the contents?
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