Farm Stay and on to St George

 15/07/2012
  90 K east of Charleville is the hamlet of Morven, which, according to tourist information has a historical  kerosene  house. Well that had us thinking, until we found it. It’s a shed made of flattened out kerosene tins. At the turn of the last century it was all some people could afford for a house. Moving on we have found ourselves in a farmyard full of mud and rusting bits of farm machinery, not far from the town of Roma. The farm is a working cattle station, though not a huge one, and we are camping just 2 K from the highway and it is very peaceful. . The facilities are basic, with one of those donkey showers, where the water is heated by a fire under a few oil drums. The best thing about the place is that it is cheap. Oh, it has a museum too….we will be giving it a miss!

 16/07/2012
 Our rustic muddy farmyard has some sort of attraction, not sure what but we have stayed for another night. We spent last night round a camp fire with a couple from Tasmania, swapping stories and generally having a laugh. As we enjoyed the evening so much we thought we would go for a replay.
 The day has been beautiful, clear blue sky. Last night, the stars were amazing, millions along the milky way, no light pollution here.
 We walked down to the creek at the bottom of the farm and collected more wood for the evenings fire, then sat enjoying the sunshine.  This area has had severe floods for 3 years running now , and the debris in the trees is at least 3 metres above the present level of the water, it must have been an incredible force of water. However it gave us a plentiful supply of wood. The fire was lit for happy hour, and there were only 2 other couples on the camp with us and we sat round the fire nattering until it got too cold.
 Must move on tomorrow as we have run out of essential supplies, something we have never done before!!

 17/07/2012
   Two nights in Steptoes yard was probably enough though we did enjoy the company of our Tasmanian mates. As is nearly always the case we are moving in opposite directions. The town of Roma is just down the road from our farmyard stopover so we called in to re-supply before heading south to St George. Roma was a bit of a revelation in that it was much bigger than we expected and surprisingly cheap ( for the Outback). We bought everything we needed at big city prices, Tooheys being as cheap as anywhere.
 Now we are on a nice campsite a few K’s outside the town of St George, and from what we have read in  the tourist info, we will stay tomorrow as well as it sounds interesting, with enough to see.

 18/07/2012
   Overnight rain meant for a soggy start to the day but this van park seems to drain quite well so no worries. The whole of this area floods as a regular occurrence as we are close to the Ballone River which seriously flooded last in February this year. You would never know as a great deal of repair work has been done.
 St George is another nice outback town where we can buy all we need, there is a sort of general store that sells everything.
 I have finally given up my macho wannabe outback Aussie image and invested  $100, in the good old general store, on head to toe fleeces. I’ve got the lot! Fleecey socks, joggers, shirt, top and beanie, I look a bit of a prat  but I will never be bloody cold again. I have also stopped taking the p….s out of Jane for carting warm woolley yachty tops all around Australia when it was 33c in the shade