2. Outback Queensland

Anne's blog 2. Outback Queensland. Well we haven't travelled very far north since I last wrote, in fact I think we are probably south of Winton here in Boulia, who's claim to fame is being Min Min country, a land of strange and some say supernatural lights seen at night. they may not be seen very often but Boulia is milking them for all they are worth. We went to the Min Min 'Experience' and for once it was worth every cent, with lights,eerie noises, talking outback characters, graveyards and all the rest, done really well. Only a little less frightening than the grocery bill across the road. We are staying in the caravan park here washing shopping and planning our next move. It couldn't be nicer with a tree lined river right behind our van. We needed to stock up as we have been in the bush for seven nights, first at a cattle station called Carysbrooke Station where we were camped by a dam in the middle of nowhere sitting by our camp fire, watching the brolgas and driving to the top of the nearby Mesa to watch the sun go down, then on to Diamantina National Park where we alternately shood the flies away and enjoyed the seventy odd pelicans parading in front of us on the river, gliding along, fishing, fighting, flying in low and jumbo-like, and fighting with the other birds, spoonbills, cormorants, and herons. There were good people to talk to and the pleasure of watching flocks of budgerigars wheeling and soaring in their hundreds, the sun catching their bright green wings as they turned. We are still heading for Adels grove but this part of Queensland is very nice to dawdle in - plenty of water and vast grasslands.