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Easter on the road

To be honest I had no idea it was Easter until Tim pulled a packet of hot cross buns out of his Bob trailer! Legend!

We were heading to Normanton and had another 110km to pull off this Easter Monday.  We found some shade at 10am and happily set about making our temporary home for the next 6 hours.

We made a hot chocolate before the heat kicked in and enjoyed our little Easter treat as 4WD’ers and a truckie called Scott popped in for a chat under the shelter.  Scott was travelling back from Karumba en route to Brisbane, a few days drive away.  He busted out a kilo of prawns, had a chat for 10 minutes and left us with them – what a legend!  Hot cross buns, hot chocolate and prawns at Easter.

Hot Cross Buns

Then it got even better – Scott and Jo from the day before at Burke and Wills pulled over and gave us each a cold beer!

Impressive termite mounds lead the way north

That evening we followed the grave yard like magnetic termite mounds north, they look just like huge head stones.  We set up camp and Tim lit his multi fuel stove for the last time, as tomorrow we’ll be camping in a camp site at Normanton.  We had been advised against camping anywhere north of here because of the crocs since the flooding.

Go Tim!

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