Today we had a more relaxed start and set off in the sunshine for Brisbane. Our route took us through melon growing country so we took time out to buy a couple. The road from Roma towards Brisbane is just a single carriageway but is the busiest road that we have travelled on since we left Brisbane. Everybody hammers along at 110kmph - even the road trains. The wildlife stands no chance and every few kms there is a squashed marsupial at the side of the road, some of them big enough to pose hazards in their own right.
We stopped in Toowoomba, Queensland's Garden City, for lunch in Picnic Place Park, situated on the top of an escarpment looking east towards the coast. Rosena was absolutely thrilled to see some Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos at quite close range. We knew that we were back in civilisation as we were able to get uninterrupted mobile phone signals from here on. As we drove on towards Brisbane the sky clouded over and by the time we were nearly home it was raining quite hard, which saved us having to wash the outback dust off the car by hand.
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