Gismo Queen and her King

Last day in Birdsville

Such a tough day - we slept in, had morning tea, moved back to the caravan park, went to the pub, had pizza for lunch, did some caravan work, went back to the pub for dinner, did washing, had a fire - that's it. I could stop the blog there, couldn't I?! Apparently there was a queue out of Birdsville this morning. Our caravan neighbours hitched their van up at 7:15am which woke us up. We had no intentions of joining them, and instead enjoyed watching everyone else pack up. We did ourselves after morning tea for the long drive back into Birdsville (!). Then we basically ate and drank for the rest of the afternoon. We had our afternoon beer - and our dinner - in the Lizard Lounge. Apparently it got it's name in 1967 when there was a particularly bad flood of the Diamantine River and all roads into Birdsville were cut off for many weeks. The pub ran out of beer and all they had left was Creme de Menthe and lemonade, so they made green drinks - called Lizard drinks. They even formed a Lizard League, which is still running to this day. We're heading off to Innamincka tomorrow morning, but not without dramas as there are still roads closed down that way, which will require us to re-route in a couple of places. We also won't have internet again until Broken Hill in about a week - not that you can call the various haphazard connections we have had here in the last week "connection". So stay tuned for the next update!

posted by Tracey @ 9:45 pm