Cattle Country

We have been away now for nearly 2 weeks and the weather is slowly getting warmer and the days longer. The mornings are still very cold 2-5C but the days are around 22-25C. Spent an hour this afternoon listening to a local talk about Barcaldine and the surrounding area drinking "billy tea", eating damper and enduring bush poetry. One of the most impressive encounters has been with these monsters of the road . Road Trains...are about 160feet long and are not slow vehicles.

As can be seen with the photo of "Tilly" in the middle of the road, Some of the "highways" are only one lane wide..... if you meet somebody coming the other way you both move off the road , leaving only 2 wheels on the bitumin.... When you have dozens of wheels like these guys and maybe carrying 160 head of cattle , weighing many tons , we slow right down to let them pass. The other day we had to pass one of these trains travelling in the same direction......we had to wait till we had a clear Km in front and it seemed to take ages to get past him.