Hello! So, day 2 is at hand!
Last night was pretty good, very cold and unexpectedly comfortable. After we stopped for lunch just North of Augathella I said that I would drive for a bit. So at 12:30 I hopped into the driver’s seat and drove to the next stop, which was the Darr River rest area (pictures at the end). We stopped at 4:35pm, so I drove at total of approximately 7 hours yesterday (including the 2:30-5:30am shift), awesome!
We got to the Darr River rest area and the first thing that stuck out to me was this old windmill on the other side of the river. It was big, it was still working fine, but it had an ominous squeak every rotation. It reminded me of something out of the Hunger Games movies, I don’t recall exactly what it is out of the movies, but yeah.
We had homemade hamburgers for dinner, with an attempt made at sweet potato fries, which didn’t turn out exactly as expected, but they were nice never the less. We also had some barbecued corn so all in all it was quite nice. After cleaning up we got to bed just before 8pm which was kind of strange, coming from going to sleep anywhere from 10pm to 2am on a regular basis.
The sleep was well appreciated as I got out of bed at around 8am, a solid 10 hours at least. When I did get up I found that the lowest temperature last night was 6.5 degrees, and it was only 9 degrees when we were walking around getting breakfast ready. Speaking of breakfast, we had bacon, eggs, croissants, baked beans and barbecued tomato. All of this was absolutely delectable, however I don’t eat eggs, so that bit was left up to mum and dad.
We eventually got packed up and out of there by 9am, and we are currently on the road headed to some relatives in Mount Isa, we hope to be there by about 4pm this afternoon.
Thanks for reading,
Trav.
