Collinsville- Barcaldine

We said our good bys in Collinsville enjoyed our  time catching up on friends and getting the local gossip some news was good some bad with the passing of some friends and people we knew oh well that's life. Collinsville too Nebo was good not much traffic Once again we got a free night in Nebo show grounds  nice showers in there as well .The drive along the Peakdowns hwy was different as far as traffic went 1st we had two 8 mtr wide loads come towards us  so had too pull off the road for them then we got stuck behind this 6 mtr wide  load for some time the driver said we are in a motorhome on holidays so was in no rush sure he could have pulled over a little a couple times and we would have slipped past  .We got too Sapphire and Sue and I use too stay on a sapphire lease out here so we parked in the van park hot as for free camping and got the car off, went for a drive we never found the lease we were on it has changed that much so many more leases out here it not funny and they have power as well sitting around having happy hour we reckon it was around 15 years sense we were here last
We had a good run Thu Clearmont, Emerald, Alpha, Jericho Now parked in Barcaldine at a friends place not sure how long going too play with the sat dish today and see if we can get this vast system going been playing with this dam sat dish for some time now thinking along the lines i should not have got one OH! well :( Finally got the vast system up and running stoked with it new decoder new LBN new cable taken a couple of months but now can watch satellite TV lucky for us  our friends in Barcaldine had a vast system well we leave tomorrow for Longreach .

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While we were parked up at Bargara we went and seen the turtles at Mon Repos awesome night could so recommend this, think it a must do while around Bundy this one we saw was a flat back rare in danger of course being whipped of the planet, she layed a clutch of 59 eggs and hope she lays three clutches in a season camera work is very controlled so you not up set the turtles .
We now in Collinsville we are parked for the Christmas break we spent a night with Shazzy and Reg at Childers then stayed at the Boynne River rest area , as we had wheel bearing trouble on the trailer took me some time too get them right hence we did not get too far up the hwy,but all good now we came up the Bruce hwy and turned towards Emrald went too Dingo and came up too Nebo and stayed at the Nebo show grounds was told they may come see you just plug into power if they not come do not  worry they never showed up so free night plugged into power there are some free spots gravel pits rest areas but being so hot we went for power show grounds .Collinsville could not get into van park told too big stayed at the footy club ran jenny for air con asked council about power at show ground no way they said. Now park on vacant block of land next too a friends house plugged in to power happy as so Merry Christmas every one from Phil and Sue :)