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Happiness Is The Road
It had been a hot night again. It was lovely and sunny today and after brekky we hit the highway again. We had a long drive ahead of us to Normanton over 300 kilometres away. The roads were very quiet again and so enjoyable to drive on despite the single lane sections, although there weren't as many of those today. Most of the drivers coming the other way waved at us, but not all of them. Upon analysis today we have ascertained that there are some drivers that will just not wave at you. They are:- a) truck and road train drivers (this is okay though as they are on the road a lot and probably get sick of it!), b) Ute drivers wearing hi-viz vests (they think they are 'real' men and believe that waving makes them look soft or gay. They drive past looking hard!), c) men with kayaks on the roof (they are f**ckers, plain and simple) and d) men towing boats (these guys are in a special fish f**ckers club and therefore probably only wave at other fish f**ckers!). Anyhow we were happy to wave at all the nice happy wavy people and we felt sorry for the others. The scenery again today was amazing. Big skies and bush and trees as far as the eye could see. There were also loads of termite mounds, thousands of them. They are an incredible sight and this part of Australia is full of them. We stopped for some lunch about half way in a place called Croydon. After we hit the highway again as is usual we came across a lot of road kill. There must be lots of kangaroos living in the bush around here and there are those poor ones that get killed on the road. They are like ready meals for the birds. We can tell when there is a dead roo coming up as there are birds all over the road feasting on it. We eventually rolled into Normanton and pulled up outside a small branch of Foodworks. We had pretty much run out of food and needed to get something for our tea. We got out of the camper and with having the air con on we had got lulled into a false sense of security. It was like an oven outside, the place was baking. The shop had hardly any food except for tins and Australia's most expensive loaf of bread, shockingly expensive! We then drove to the caravan park. The lady on reception, who moved here from England 12 years ago, showed us to a lovely quiet spot. The first thing we did was hit the pool. The caravan park had a huge pool and we both went for a lovely refreshing swim and messed about in the water. They also had a very relaxing spa bath. We didn't expect to see any frogs here and having not seen any in the bogs yesterday we thought we were now frog free. We weren't. The flapper valve at the side of the pool looked to have some debris in it. Upon closer inspection it was filled with frogs! There were about five of them in there enjoying what appeared to be there very own froggy spa bath! These frogs were cute. We had our tea later and sat out at the back of the camper and watched the sunset over the wetlands that we could see over the road from the caravan park. Jay was worried that there might be crocodiles in the wetlands opposite. We had tuna pasta for tea and Jay went to drain the tin of tuna in the camp kitchen. I half expected her to come running back with a greedy croc in tow but it seems the tuna smell went unnoticed! It was stupidly hot tonight. The daytime high we had heard was 35 degrees but it felt a lot hotter to us. It was now about 7pm and it felt like 35 degrees now. We drank some cold beer and tried not to melt into our camp chairs! By bed time the inside of the camper was like an oven, our pillows were like hot coals and our fan was just blowing the hot air around. We sweated ourselves to sleep!
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