Gismo Queen and her King

Birdsville - Monday 4th July

The Bash has started! While we weren't quite "rockin' the Simpson" as originally heralded, Birdsville was indeed rocking tonight. The concert kicked off at 5:30pm with Wilbur Wilde as MC and tonight's line up was Glenn Shorrock and Brian Cadd so it was old time rock and roll on the playlist tonight. It took us a while to get in with long queues for the shuttle bus because they discouraged people taking their cars (mainly because of parking - Birdsville doesn't have many streets so it wouldn't take long for them to fill up) although coming home was slightly quicker. However, once we got ourselves settled and chairs set up on the oval, we had a reasonable view of the stage and a good view of the big screen. The music was good and the audience was in a good mood. Home for a late dinner of fried rice in Cafe Bushtracker and to warm up, as it got pretty cold sitting on the oval (no campfire to keep us warm). We had a nice sleep in this morning and woke to a lovely sunny morning so on with shorts and t shirt to soak up the sun. We had the nice view of a hot air balloon rising over the sand dune in front of us. It was very close, both to see and hear. Reading in the sun was very pleasant. Not quite so pleasant - but still entertaining - was Neill's and my trip to the dump point. It seems half the camp went at the same time. Suffice to say, I have never had to queue for a dump point before. But, as I may have mentioned on previous trips, I could write a book about dump points around Australia. Firstly, because there so many different kinds; secondly, because of where some of them are located; and thirdly because of the conversations you have there. Today, there was a very well dressed woman there supporting her husband with wet wipes and hand sanitiser. She looked out of place because a) this does seem to be a male dominated task, and b) she was too well dressed for the task! Then there was toilet cassette envy - I got many comments because I wheeled mine from the car. Turns out many don't have wheels! Jude and I then did some baking while Neill lit a fire so we could have baked bean jaffles for lunch. After sampling the baking products with the after-lunch cuppa, we prepared for the concert and Jude got dinner ready to go for our return. The next two days of the concert should be even better although we certainly hope the couple of drops of rain we had early this afternoon don't increase over those two days.

posted by Tracey @ 7:10 am