Day 10, (a rest day on the week-end - in civilization - Musgrave Roadhouse (Yarraden).
Some thoughts on what Dave and I were talking about yesterday… (& some NRL images on the big screen) popped into a poem (a dream) in the wee hours of the morning, then I slept in till around 9am! Up and a cold mandarine and hot coffee. Lovely!
Met Ed, from Peru collecting the rubbish, a good worker, polite, courteous, and personable. Thanks for keeping the place clean Ed.
Then I put my feet up again, & edited some blog stuff, while Dave explored the creek where folk had mentioned there were some f.w. crocks.
As well as meals, shower, & talking to people as we meet them, we have some Jobs for this day of rest near civilization..
Washing clothes -Done
Reading an article together by C.S.Lewis on “Myth became Fact” -Done (over lunch).
Resting feet, but using them a bit. -Done
Learning to recall, as stage 1 of learning to meditate… on a little letter written in the second half of the first Century by one of the last eye-witnesses of Jesus of Nazareth, who had dropped everything to follow him. (2John) -Done some of…
Fill up our drinking water tank. -Done
See at least one fresh water (f.w.) crocodile… -Done
During the day we found out that the owner feeds the crocs (& turtles) that come for food at the corner of a dam at the back of the camp ground, so Dave & I went early and heard a bunch of stories from
Retired Joe from Mackay who was here last year, and filled us in on up here, pointed out the 6 f/w crocs in the water beside us,
We saw the backs and eyes and nostrils of 5 or 6, Can you make any out?
And Joe told us about the Barra farm at Currumba etc. Thanks Joe.
We decided to have a look when the owner feeds these crocs around 5pm this Arvo...and then with Ethan, we went again at ~5pm, they’d all been fed by then, but a swag were sitting around on the bank hopeful, while people stayed to watch…
The near empty camp ground was ¾ full before dinner, so we went early to dinner to get it over quickly.
At dinner, before we sat down, a Chinese tourist came to the counter beside us, asking if he could buy an adaptor for the Chinese/American two parallel pronged plug to charge his phone. They could not help. I talked to him as we walked past, and (after checking if his charger could handle 240 V as well as 110 V) with help from Ethan’s multi-tool, we did some outback mechanics to make it fit perfectly. Haimin was very pleased and we were glad to help.
After dinner we had a drink, an adapted version of the card game “Tens”, & read a page or two of Dave’s book on leadership. Rich time .
Unless there pops up some good reason to hang around a bit, we’re expecting to move on, first thing in the morning (Sunday) and make 3 stops, every 25km, before hitting Coen on Thursday night.
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