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20111130 There goes Des he dropped me of then pissed off & left me (prick) naa just kidding but I just had to get a photo of where we were.  The road to the Gorge We arrived at Carnarvon Gorge after 19 klms of corrugated dirt road Des was not a happy chappy it shook the shit out of the Winnebago and moved the fridge so we had to chock it up for more support.  We signed in at the national park at 12.15 pm & begun our walk up the gorge, I'm not sure how Des will cope he's not much of a walker so this should be interesting.  Part of the track up the Gorge Walk up the Gorge There are six levels  to the very top, a 9.6km walk one way that can takes over 10 hours, I can't see us doing that. We passed a couple of German tourist and asked which part was worth seeing, definitely the Amphitheatre it’s a must, that's good enough for us. We arrived at the Amphitheatre at around 2.30 pm and it was worth the wa...

20111130 We packed up and traveled onto Roma sitting perched up in the truck with my camera on my lap taking in the changing landscape and the many road-trains that over taking these grey nomads chucking along the Warrego Highway.  Passing many scatted towns with their season crops of  sorghum, wheat, barley, maize, chickpeas and sunflowers  before arriving in Roma, the town of the grand old Bottle Trees and the biggest cattle saleyards in the southern hemisphere. Be sure to stop at the Big Rig just before you hit the town and learn about the discovery of oil and gas in Australia. The streets are lined with large Bottle Trees called, The Heroes Avenue that consist of 93 bottle trees in remembrance of the men of Roma who died in WWI.  The first tree was planted in 1918 in honor of Lieutenant Corporal Norman Saunders who was killed in France in 1916 and is now known as the tree knowledge. We stayed the night at Injune just outside of Rome that's full of ...

20111129 Left Dolby & headed inland to Condamine, where we were told is a nice town to stop but first, we check out the town of Kogan, a little town on the Condamine Highway where sits one of Australia’s most modern and environmentally friendly, Kogan Creek Power Station. The name Kogan derives from an early pastoral run called Kogan Creek and in the 1800 was a charging station on the Dalby-Roma coach route before the Western Railway line was constructed .   These days Kogan has little to offer but Des managed to find some little old ladies in the hall who asked him if he wanted a cup of tea, we had a chat, took some photos & left for Condamine. The town has a bit of a past and in memory of this onetime Kogan resident a famous bush artist constructed, The Hugh Sawrey walkway. The sculpture features Sawrey playing cards with his best mate, “Darkie” Dwyer. Sculpture made from various tools, scrap iron and much more, it sits opposite the Kogan Hotel in Queensland, creat...