Old Fossils

Tue 7 July… We left Gayndar with a gift of about 17 kilos of mandarins, given to us by one of the fruit pickers. We don’t know who exactly as we found them in a bag on one of our folding chairs outside the van when we got up this morning, and they had all gone off to work. If we eat this lot we will be well up to speed with our vitamin C. As we pulled away from Gayndar we could see that the whole town is surrounded by orange groves and the like. It’s not a very nice day, cool with lots of clouds and looks like rain. The landscape here resembles a typical English winter scene we could be anywhere in the Cotswolds right now. As we drive on we decide to do a little detour to stay at a site which is by the side of a big lake come reservoir. We think it probably supplies Brisbane with water. Somerset Lake is well off the main route and it has FREE WIFI and we can’t resist that. When we get there, they only have 12 powered sites and they are full. We are not prepared to stay on unpowered sites as the Navigator feels the cold of an evening, and we need an electricity supply to run the air con/heater. We move on following the lake south through some very pretty countryside but it would be much nicer if it weren’t so gloomy. Onwards to a town called Esk, not far from Eskdale. If anyone has ever been to the Scottish borders around Eskdalemuir you will understand the type of terrain we are in, it’s very similar. Tall wooded hills shrouded in mist and it looks like it rains a lot. Apparently there is no TV signal here, what a shame!
We left the citrus capital of Oz then passed through the peanut capital of Oz! We stopped to buy some , some chilli and lime and some butterscotch and caramel. We then went through Murgon which boasts the oldest and smallest fossil in Australia a bats tooth, 50 million years old. Wow!! We expect you are totally under whelmed by this snippet and if you want to know anymore, don’t bother us!!! For more old fossils try the White Hart!