Leaving Oz

Left Jundah at 0630 last Thursday having scrubbed, cleaned and packed for a few days.  Who'd have kids?  Drove to within 65km of Mackay in our convoy.  What a shower.

After approx 900kms and quite a bit of rain stopped at a roadhouse at about 1800 for the night - very friendly, good food and topless barmaids!  Helped Donna and Jacko move in on the Friday (fortunately lots of sun so able to dry out the soggy furniture) and had chook and chips for dinner kindly supplied by their friends Adam and Leonie.  No outside furniture or indoor chairs for that matter so table was the back of the truck!  All the best parties are truck based!

Great house, storage and workspace downstairs and all living upstairs. Big grass yard for the dog at the back.  Now settled in having spent Saturday rushing around garage sales looking for various items of household goods.  Bought lots of stuff but not the chairs we were desperate for.  Got them eventually in cheap store so all settled in now.

Exploring Mackay area - seems very good.  A bit of a boom town with huge coalmines inland.  Weather gone from hot to wet to humid, but we are in the tropics!  Poured this morning so spent 4 hours at Mackay Bridge Club.

Leaving tomorrow for Rockhampton, then flying to Brisbane then Auckland on Friday.  Next post from NZ.