Well, the night wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. The trucks never did settled down much, and the AC running was a bit disturbing, but we did end up getting a halfway decent night sleep. We departed just before 8 and headed straight into town to find the public dump, since oddly, the Holiday Park didn't have one, and managed to get all that done in short order, and off we went! We stayed mostly on a road called A-39, not a freeway, but it was the most direct route to Brisbane. We stopped once for a meal at McDonald's (they call them Macca's here as slang, rather than Micky D's), but they all have free wifi, so I was finally able to download a pic my brother had sent me a few days ago. I had tried in several other places, but for some reason, it just refused to download, but finally I got it, pictures of my horses from the rump side, to prove they're not starving (as if I thought they were :-). Most of the day was devoted to going through miles and miles of flat agricultural fields, though we weren't sure exactly what was in the fields. Some had obviously been recently harvested, looked like it might have been wheat, but I have to say, these fields were are extensive as anything we've seen in Iowa or Kansas or Nebraska. They stretched on so far that the windbreak of trees faded off into the horizon, buried in a mirage lake, until the curvature of the earth literally made them disappear. How far they went on I have no idea, but they were incredible. Not much corn, but I think wheat and barley and perhaps hops, even cotton in one area. Almost had sheep withdrawal today, but did finally pass several fields of sheep, so I did get my sheep fix. Don't know what I'm going to do when I get home. There was also a stretch where there was a very interesting cactus tree that grew about 20-25 feet high, even 30 feet in a few cases. Beautiful, and looked ready to bloom, would love to have seen that! We finally reached the area where we had found a campground from Wikicamps, which has been an invaluable resource, but this time it was a bit shaky on information. We looked for Bush Lagoon, but there were no signs, and we passed it. We came back and found a turnoff that had to be it, but it was little more than a sandy area around a drying pond, though there were lots of tracks and scat around, and I had hopes of maybe seeing some kangaroos or koalas or wombats in the wild. I put out some old french fries, but that didn't help. Oh, well, I seemed condemned to only see kangaroos as road kill, darn it. I'll keep looking though! Because we were so far out in the boonies, though, the stars were incredible! We even found the Southern Cross just by looking out the windows of the van, plus there were more stars than I can remember seeing in a long time painting the sky. We had hopes that the trucks on this busy highway would diminish during the night, but it didn't slow down too much, and we had traffic passing most of the night. But it was free, and the stars were great! Can't have everything, right?
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