Bugs and a bit of Rugby

  17/09/2011
   The Daly Waters Pub is typical of a bush pub, with it’s paraphernalia hanging from the tin walls and the corrugated iron roof. They serve cold beer and good food but they have to do something about the wildlife. Wildlife being bugs of the crawling and flying variety, the whole campsite is infested with them. Despite our nearly efficient antinastybug screen, it’s a case of spraying, turn out the light, turn it on again and brush the bugs out of the bed. Doing one’s ablutions in a tin shed with a frog as audience is not too bad, but sharing a bed with a coating of crawlies is not on.
  Daly Waters has\never had a population reaching 3 figures and was originally a drovers store. There are one or two artefacts dating from that time, but the stuff in the pub is more modern. There are rows of baseball caps, from all over the world, with footie (aussie rules) and rugby shirts. There is also a fine selection of women’s bras and men’s pants hanging around. Some say it’s a historical pub, hysterical springs to mind.
  We have moved on south and early in the day passed a horrendous road traffic accident. A road train cattle transporter lost it’s last 2 wagons, which flipped over, killing all the beasts in them. They were in the process of clearing the road with dozens of dead cows having been pushed up into a heap by the side of the road. We were glad we didn’t witness the event or pass by it a couple of hours later when the day got hotter.
  We are free camped by the roadside, having scoffed Fran’s’ Ordinaries (very good) and revamped the mark2 antinastybug screen, maybe we should take it back to Daly Waters to road test it.

  18/09/2011
  A day on the road, just eating up the miles, there is little to see but scrub. We changed direction at Three ways Roadhouse to go east towards Queensland and have stopped for the night at the Barkly Roadhouse. Another of those soulless places that has the basics. What it does have however is a good internet signal which has allowed me to follow the England v Georgia Rugby World Cup match. The down side is, it is only live text commentary, definitely the most boring way to follow a game ever conceived! It’s probably worse than watching a game commentated on by that One-eyed Welshman, Eddie  Butler. Only rugby aficionados will understand that, plus, England won despite Jonathan Kaplan.
 The antinastybug screen mark2 seems to be working!! Should we patent it?