Gismo Queen and her King

Day 27 - Nindigully to St George

You can tell it’s cotton picking season up here! There’s fields of white fluffy plants or brown stubble, there’s rows of yellow plastic wrapped bales lined up as far as the eye can see, and there’s plenty of trucks moving just a few of the giant bales at a time passing you on the road! Today’s drive was short, straight and dry and apart from cotton trucks, very easy. We arrived into St George before 10am and found our caravan park (there are no free camps in this town) and had the first load of washing on before 10:30am! Plenty of housekeeping to do, multiple loads of washing, grocery shopping, fuelling up the cars - and we had to have all of this done before 4pm as we were booked on the sunset cruise along the Balonne River. It made for a busy day but thankfully the cruise departed from just behind our caravan park. Brett took about 20 of us upstream describing the wildlife, the characteristics of the river particularly between the two weirs, the floods, the fauna etc. We journeyed approximately 8km before we turned around, and got to witness a spectacular sunset en route. Water is pretty critical in this part of the world and the river provides a lot of that - hence why the weirs were built for farming irrigation. There are also two artesian bores here that supplies water - and occasionally, it rains. We were back to camp by 6pm and as I was on dinner duty tonight, I leapt into action (whilst also chasing the last of my drying washing). Satay beef was on the menu tonight which was enjoyed by all sitting outside, although it would have still been nice to have had a fire. As we drank our tea, and the clock approached 9pm, we realised we were the only people still out and awake in this caravan park - which is chockers! More housekeeping before bed, ready for a much bigger drive tomorrow - but there are artesian baths at the end of it - which should be very nice in the 27C forecast for tomorrow!! (No service where we are going so it will be a few days before the blog gets updated again)

posted by Tracey @ 10:32 pm