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Well we woke this morning knowing that it would be our last time with Rod and Angie.... We also woke to a nosy emu who was walking around looking at all our stuff and also to noisy bloody peacocks waking up!!!
Everyone was quiet packing up not wanting to think about our upcoming farewell. We were on the road by 8am as we hadnt unpacked a great deal. We were heading to Mt Carbine to pick up our caravan, we were sort if looking forward to it by now.
We made our way to Laura and stopped for a drink and a bite to eat. Was weird to be now driving on bitumen and Marty pumped the tyres up seeing there was no more dirt roads. Whilst having a chat we all decided somehow that we didn't want this to end right now so we were all going to head to Lake Tinaroo in Artherton Tablelands, calling in to pick up the caravan along the way. We were all so excited and the dreariness ended as soon as we knew we were going to be together for s little while longer!!
Got to Mt Carbine around 12:30pm and hooked the caravan up. Glad we decided to not stay here as it was so hot and with nowhere to cool off it would have been pain stacking l think. Anyway, we paid our $18 for the night we were meant to have stayed and pushed off, next stop Mt Molloy for lunch. Angie and Rod had suggested we stop at this cafe for a huge bloody burger. As l was still slightly sluggish from a few nights ago, another burger sounded great to me. We arrived at Mt Molloy at 1:30pm and ordered our burgers. OMG, Angie and Rod were not kidding!!! When the grumpy Italian bloke who run the place brought the burgers out, Marty and l both dropped our jaws! The burgers filled the plate they came out on and needed three skewers to hold it together (blog pic). But in true Beeson form Marty and l devoured them leaving not too much left lol.....
After lunch we waddled back to the cars having all made pigs of ourselves and headed to Lake Tinaroo. The landscape had changed so much frim the start of the day. We had left on red dirt roads with bush landscapes and now coming into Atherton Tableland we were on black bitumen surrounded by lush green rolling hills and beautiful purple flowering jackaranda tree's and rainforests. We arrived around 4pm all a bit knackered. Had been a huge few days. Lake Tinaroo was huge and we had found an awesome spot right on the water to camp for free. We set up and settled for two minute noodles for tea and headed to bed early eager to sleep in a bed.....
Bell Xx
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