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Location Date New South Wales 1346454000 Queensland 
1346367600 Victoria 1180825200 Northern Territory 1180479600 South Australia 1179097200 -
Location Date Mundubbera 1346367600 Airlie Beach 1345676400 Ayr 1345590000 Cooktown 1344726000 Cairns 1343775600 Cardwell 1343689200 Townsville 1342479600 Capella 1342134000 Emerald 1342134000 Roma
1341961200 St George 1341874800 Taroom 1183071600 Goondiwindi 1183071600 Rockhampton 1182898800 Sarina 1182812400 Rollingstone 1181084400 Charters Towers 1180998000 Mount Isa 1180566000 -
Location Date Wed, 11 July 2012 1342013280 Wed, 11 July 2012
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Day 10
Kilometres travelled today......218
Kilometres from home......1050
We left the van park at 09:11am, travelling on the Carnarvon Highway on our way to Roma. It was a cloudy morning. Stopped at Surat for morning tea, Pies and Coffee. The pies were Yuk!! and the coffee wasn't much better. The Highway was very good to Surat but very rough from there to Roma.
Surat is a small rural town on the Balonne River, approximately 75 kilometres south of Roma on the Carnarvon Highway, and 450 kilometres west of Brisbane.
The district was first mapped by Surveyor-General Sir Thomas Mitchell in 1846. By the end of the 1849s pastoralists had penetrated the area, and in 1849 Mitchell directed a surveyor, Burrowes, to select a township site on the Balonne River. Burrowes did so and named it after the diamond-polishing city of Surat, after his former place of residence in present day Gujarat state, then known as the Bombay Province, India.
We arrived in Roma 12:30pm and booked into the Villa Holiday Park drive through site 38 at $32.00 per night. The drive through sites were very tight with vans very close to together.
We had a slight problem with this booking. I had rung the Park the previous day to book, but inadvertently rang the wrong number and booked into a totally different park. So when we arrived in the wrong Park obviously they had no booking for us.The problem was expertly solved by the staff and we were able to remain in the wrong Park, having advised the right Park that we would not be arriving. We stayed 2 nights.
Roma is in the western Darling Downs area, 515 km north west of Brisbane.
It is situated at the junction of the Warrego and Carnarvon highways. It is the centre of a rich pastoral and wheat-growing district, The town was incorporated in 1867 and is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen (née Roma), the wife of Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of Queensland at the time. Beef, Grain and Wool are its chief industries. It is in the Maranoa electoral district. At the 2011 census, Roma had a population of 7,991.
Bore water for the town is obtained from the Artesian Basin. Many homes have a tank for rainwater delivered by a third tap at the kitchen sink as the town water has a strong taste.
In late 2010, Roma experienced its worst floods in over 100 years. The town is situated on Bungil Creek, a tributary of the Condamine River. Flooding also occurred in 2011, a year of record rainfall in Australia.
In early February 2012, Roma was devastated by its worst floods in history, eclipsing the level reached in 2010. 444 homes were inundated, twice as many as were flooded in the two previous years.
Kilometres travelled today......218
Kilometres from home......1050
We left the van park at 09:11am, travelling on the Carnarvon Highway on our way to Roma. It was a cloudy morning. Stopped at Surat for morning tea, Pies and Coffee. The pies were Yuk!! and the coffee wasn't much better. The Highway was very good to Surat but very rough from there to Roma.
Surat is a small rural town on the Balonne River, approximately 75 kilometres south of Roma on the Carnarvon Highway, and 450 kilometres west of Brisbane.
The district was first mapped by Surveyor-General Sir Thomas Mitchell in 1846. By the end of the 1849s pastoralists had penetrated the area, and in 1849 Mitchell directed a surveyor, Burrowes, to select a township site on the Balonne River. Burrowes did so and named it after the diamond-polishing city of Surat, after his former place of residence in present day Gujarat state, then known as the Bombay Province, India.
We arrived in Roma 12:30pm and booked into the Villa Holiday Park drive through site 38 at $32.00 per night. The drive through sites were very tight with vans very close to together.
We had a slight problem with this booking. I had rung the Park the previous day to book, but inadvertently rang the wrong number and booked into a totally different park. So when we arrived in the wrong Park obviously they had no booking for us.The problem was expertly solved by the staff and we were able to remain in the wrong Park, having advised the right Park that we would not be arriving. We stayed 2 nights.
Roma is in the western Darling Downs area, 515 km north west of Brisbane.
It is situated at the junction of the Warrego and Carnarvon highways. It is the centre of a rich pastoral and wheat-growing district, The town was incorporated in 1867 and is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen (née Roma), the wife of Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of Queensland at the time. Beef, Grain and Wool are its chief industries. It is in the Maranoa electoral district. At the 2011 census, Roma had a population of 7,991.
Bore water for the town is obtained from the Artesian Basin. Many homes have a tank for rainwater delivered by a third tap at the kitchen sink as the town water has a strong taste.
In late 2010, Roma experienced its worst floods in over 100 years. The town is situated on Bungil Creek, a tributary of the Condamine River. Flooding also occurred in 2011, a year of record rainfall in Australia.
In early February 2012, Roma was devastated by its worst floods in history, eclipsing the level reached in 2010. 444 homes were inundated, twice as many as were flooded in the two previous years.
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