7:00 am on the bike and on the way. Another cool start 13 degrees. Quickly covering ground - 44 km by 9:30 am already halfway for the day. Same scenery as yesterday, eucalypts and scrub - more cattle all looking well fed and relaxed. Plenty of fresh green growth. Saw a Wedge Tail Eagle ahead, sadly I saw 2 dead wedgies yesterday. Also some colourful parrots and kites this morning.
Got to Belyandro just before 12:30 pm. Starting to get hot and the wind has picked up so I decide to stay. $15 for an unpowered site. Hamburger chips and coke for lunch. The burger is huge but I make short work of it. Lass behind the counter serving is French Canadian.
I had a chat with a couple of girls who were cleaning the workers dongas (Just to be clear a donga is a portable bungalow). They are finding the heat hard going. The dongas are like ovens without the aircon switched on
I had a chat with a couple of girls who were cleaning the workers dongas (Just to be clear a donga is a portable bungalow). They are finding the heat hard going. The dongas are like ovens without the aircon switched on
I shower and do my washing before finding space in the shade shelter. I'll set up my tent later. There is no mobile coverage or Internet here so I finally find out that the Bulldogs beat Adelaide and are in the finals from a passing tourist.
Having finished the day early the is nothing to do here but relax and read.
In the evening I go to the bar for a few drinks before dinner. The girl serving is lively and chatty. She tells me she has a new hearing aid. She only has 50% hearing in her left ear. The other side is totally deaf. She tells me sometimes it can be very funny because she will hear something completing wrong so she will ask the customer to repeat what they said and then she will tell them what she thought heard. She says she must have a dirty mind because what she thought she heard is often quite rude
Dinner was crumbed fish and salad and chips (everything in North Queensland singer is served with chips). Went back to my campsite to find some crusty has parked his campervan in my site totally ignoring the presence of my bike and bags. Just plain rude or oblivious - didn't bother to remonstrate just moved my stuff to another part of the campsite. The dude and his wife are sitting in front of their van watching me. No acknowledgement - weird!
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