Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Roma Qld 19/20 July 2019 Leaving Lightning Ridge and heading north, the road continued to be a bit of a struggle, not as bad as before but not quite right either. However, past Hebel, which is in Queensland and on to St George it is in much better repair and makes for a safer more enjoyable trip. And you, it weren't to safe for the literally hundreds of 'roos splattered all over the place, mile after mile, some in groups of ten or so. As J Williamson sings, 'Birds flying round with a knife and fork, dam good feed for an eagle hawk'. We had lunch in St George at a cafe that derives its fame from having engraved emu eggs, if you like that sort of thing. One reason I wanted to stop here was to see if the Town Fathers had paid any tribute to Len Waters, Australia's only Aboriginal fighter pilot, who earned his stripes flying a    Kittyhawk he named 'Black Magic' in New Guinea during World War II. We ended up at the Info place and I asked the nice lady if s...

Our second day in St George. Still nothing going on. The highlight of the day was going to be a crawl of the 'must sees' in town: emu eggs, Model T at the bakery and wine tasting and lunch at the winery. St George Qld First of all, we found the bakery, and had to ask the nice lady about the much publicised 1917 Baker's delivery van. It turned out to be down the back near the shed where her husband may or may not have been 'working' on it. He was nowhere to be seen so she very obligingly left her busy bakery and took us down to have a look. It's just an old car turned out in Bakers livery. It's not even local. We smiled and said all the right things then went looking for the egg. 1917 Model T. Bakery. St George Qld The 'world class attraction' (it must be true, it's on the sign) is right across the road, nestled in between a cafe, a florist. and a hairdresser. We were getting excited by this time, but when we saw that they wanted $3...

St George Qld July 13, 2015 Bit of a tedious drive up the main highway through traffic and drizzle right up to Moree, where we gratefully hung a left and headed up a secondary highway to St George. It’s fabulous country, big flat expanses of green fields which looked like they were growing canola and then further up cotton. Thankfully Judy had booked ahead some time ago as there is a country music festival in town and the (only decent looking) van park was fully booked. St George is a nice looking town on the banks of the Barone River, kept at reasonable levels by the Jack Taylor weir. There isn't a lot to do here, it was all I could do to keep a straight and polite face as the nice lady at the info place was waxing lyrical about the emu-egg carving at the local guns / ammo / emu egg carving gallery. Another option is a visit to a winery, which we are saving for tomorrow, and a 95km round trip self-drive tour of the cotton fields, which we might give a miss. To fill in a...