YOWAH, we found a beauty !!!!! while specking about in the public area I walked around behind the truck towards a tree for obvious boy reasons and --- YOWAH, this beautiful blue spark gleamed back at me from about 20 meters away! I had it polished yesterday and ended up with a triangular shaped solid blue and green opal 10mm long x 8mm thick. They valued it at about $400 to $500, nice little bonus.
It was hard to bid farewell to Yowah this morning after 9 days and start the leg towards Birdsville, we have both developed a soft spot for this little place, the people and the life style here. I thought we had a laid back life style up home but it has nothing on this town. We will definitely be coming back next year. There are a couple of pics of the school - loved the sig on the gate 😀
Stopped at the Toompine Pub for lunch, that was different as it is a Pub without a Town, out in the middle of nowhere with a checkered history dating back to the late 1800's, it is built with small corrugated iron and cypress pine with wide verandah around it. Interesting sign on the front fence too - see the pic.
We are travelling via Quilpie for a stock up on food then on to Haddens Corner, we should be at the Corner tomorrow night and spend a few days looking around before the last few hundred K's to Birdsville and arrive there on the 26th.
Camped tonight beside the Bull River before we explore the town with the various Museums, the air port where Amy Johnston landed on her epic flight from England to Australia, history we learned school but didn't understand nor fully appreciate, her navigation skills whilst flying solo over this vast outback are incredible.
Oh and the boulder Opal fields - of course.
Sampled a new food tonight, local butchers speciality, beef, bacon and herb sausage, they are really tasty. 👍
We are going back to get a few more before departure as they are that good.
Well as everything is functioning as it should be and we have had no problems, I will sign off for tonight.
I will do another entry before we leave here as it will be Satellite Phone only until civilisation next Sunday.
Nite all, stay safe.
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