We left Carnarvon Gorge Saturday morning 18th Sept, it had rained most of Friday night and was still raining in the morning (the start of the school holidays) our intention was to get off the dirt road section before the incoming traffic hit it, as it turned out it was very wet, chopped up and plenty of mud, by the time we covered the few kilometers of dirt to the bitumen the van was covered in a heavy build up of thick mud fortunately a couple of hundred clicks down the road at Injune there is a Parthenium weed truck washing facility (high pressure hose) so we (I) spent a good hour hosing off mud. Refuelled and heated up some soup at Roma then drove on to Miles for the night as it's not much fun sight seeing in the rain. Sunday we drove on to Highfields to camp at Nancy's Cousins, Carol and Barry Baldwin and caught up with Carol's sister Ronda and Graham Rosengreen, it was great we haven't seen any of them for so long (my fault) and they are all fabulous people. Barry and Carol have a beautiful home on 4 acres over looking SW Highfields, mind you low cloud set in and you couldn't see the end of the garden. Monday Carol took us into Toowoomba for afternoon tea at Ronda and Grahams, they are doing up a beautiful old queenslander with lovely high ceilings and brilliantly laquered timber floors a lot of work, both Ronda and Carol are very artistic and Ronda has become quite a water painter. Once again we crawled along the range in low cloud.
Tuesday mid morning we set off on our final leg for Brissy deciding to travel the pleasant drive via Esk and as soon as we struck the Hampton - Esk road we were once again engulfed by low cloud we were flat out seeing the road.
Brisbane - Wednesday morning found us snarling at one another, I think we were both suffering travel withdrawal, I don't think it will be too long before we are on the road again.
I'll keep you posted.