20240525 Coolatai was our next town, which I now remember as the town we got flooded in after leaving Texas in 2021. We arrived at Coolatai and had a rest then walked to the pub where we meet some of the friendly locals, one I remembered from our last stay in March 2021 floods. We were stuck here with all exist flooded in when a woman with her boys turned up to check on us, Shelly was her name and she would check on us daily and even gave us free power.
The campground at Coolatai Hall.
20240526 It started to rain so we decided to stay another day, and what better to do than lunch at the Wallarooo Hotel when three elderly chaps walked into the pub, locals I assumed and one was quite pissed. He was a happy chap and started talking to me then looked at Des and said, Gee your punching above your weight, Des replied, no she is, the chap gave Des a strange look, then said to me, has he looked in the mirror lately. We weren’t sure what he meant but we all cracked up laughing. Then we got to meet the owner who told us the story of his Italian descendants who family used to own 21 acres on Panorama Drive Thornlands, and now they run the Wallaroo Hotel in Coolatai, the people you meet on the road.
The Wallarooo Hotel
OMG these country pubs may not be as cheap as they once were but the size of the meals are huge and delicious.😋
20240527 We left Coolatai and headed to Texas along the Warilalda Rd that’s as rough as guts then we turned right on Bruxner Way which doesn’t seem much better. Just past Yetman we noticed a creek that could potentially have yabbies so we turned around to check it out. A really nice place to camp but I don’t think it’s muddy enough for yabbies so we left for Texas still searching along the way for that muddy creek.
We passed over the Dumaresq River into Texas
We arrived in Texas and found that special spot, out comes the awnings, we set up the table and gas cooker then sat back and did nothing, because we can. This is where we did a quick exit when here in 2021 when the floods hit the area and the river reached the top of the campground. Ross Cox a friend of ours who lives in Texas dropped down for a chat and drove us to town for a coffee in the new cafe then we meet Heather his wife at the op shop before stopping at his place to check out his T model ford Ross is doing up before taking us home.
Ross was lucky enough to score this photo which once belonged to his parents, his father told him he brought the photo because he remembered the homes in the photo.
20240530 We booked into the caravan park in Texas to see the rain out that’s heading our way so we rode into town to check it out but decided to leave for Yelarbon, and yes there’s rain heading our way and lots of it. Travelling along the Texas-Yelarbon road and so far it’s better than most of the main road we’ve been on.
The emu’s are out and having a good feed but soon scattered when trucks pass by.
A scene as we head towards Yelarbon
This sign just cracked me up, that’s one way to get the point across.
Brains of the elderly slow because they know so much...
The brains of older people only appear to be less speedy, because they have much information to access, much like a full-up hard drive, scientists believe Elderly people have so much information in their brain that it takes longer for them to access it, scientific show.
Older people do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts, because they have so much information in their brains, research suggests.
Much like a computer takes longer as the hard drive gets full up, so do humans take longer to access info has been reported.
Researchers say this slowing down it is not the same as cognitive decline.
The human brain appears to work slower in old age, said Dr. Michael Ramscar, but only because so much information has been stored over time. Older people simply know more, so selecting a correct choice from trove of stored data may take a bit longer.
So there!!!!!!
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