Friday - What a Big Sky There is.

After the excitement of our dining experience of yesterday (Thursday), it was a bit of a come-down to be up at 5.38 a.m. to get organized to move on. Rosena was a good girl and ate most of her left over slab of near raw steak. We headed for Roma today, on the way back to Brisbane. The weather as we set off on our drive looked set fair for the day. Thank goodness the car has AC.

The wildlife was prolific again with emus, kangaroos and brolgas all showing up near the road for us to enjoy as we pass. (Ann McIvor look away now) We saw our first snakes - squashed on the tarmac. The sky as we drove was was huge, blue and cloudless,and the vista was miles wide. The land is very green for Australia as John and Anne keep pointing out to us and the contrasting colours of the sky, the grasses and trees and the tremendous red of the earth is quite stunning.


Our host, Dr John Pope was born in Roma,and was keen to give us a tour. It is a long established community, with classic Queenslander houses and is famous for its aptly named bottle trees. For once we had not booked accommodation ahead so it was a bit of a shock to see No Vacancy signs everywhere. Monday is the ANZAC day holiday here and it looks like most of Brisbane has decided to head for the outback. Luckily we found a cabin on a cancellation but it was frogless (no en-suite).