Crossed the border into Qld at Goondiwindi which is the border town. How can you not stay in a town with this name! Has a population of about 10,720 and it is growing with predictions to 12,340 by 2026. It is one of Qld’s fastest growing rural communities. Had a bit of an adventure driving to Gooni (local talk) – we ran out of petrol! Can you believe it and we have a jerry can. We were about 10kms outside of Moree when John realised we were a bit low of fuel however despite my prompting to turn around and fill up he guessed we should have enough to just make it! Wrong guess. About 30kms outside of Gooni the fuel light was on and had been for a while, there was lot of traffic behind us and there weren’t any rest areas that we could easily pull over into so as soon as we spotted somewhere we could pull over safely he did so and then worked out what to do. It was obvious we weren’t going to make it so off with the jerry can and thumb out John hitched a lift to the closest servo (30kms away). Coco and I stayed with the van. Luckily as soon as John had put his thumb out a 4wd with some workers stopped and picked him up and the same at the other end, so in all took less than a hour. Topped up with the jerry can and continued on. Can you believe it! On a sad note we lost our little gecko friend today. We have had it with us since WA living in the van with us. He/she unfortunately got squashed by the outdoor table that we have by the side of the bed when we travel. RIP our little friend. We got quite attached to him/her.
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Welcome to Qld at last, can't wait to see ya!
ReplyDeleteYes us too - John is feeling quite at home in Qld already so may be seeing more of us than you thought! See you very soon.
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