Plod Adventures No. 24

Sunday 8th February I arrived at Cunnamulla for a big cattle/ sheep muster and to my surprise Rod the owner said I could stay in his very nice bungalow all to myself so I spread myself out and hung up my clothes.



Good a well earned rest, apart from quite a lot of frogs. I caught one big one and one baby one threw them outside. That's not counting the ones in the toilet, probably about 6 of them I got rid of. I found another 5 baby ones and I cut them in half, my word they do take some killing. I thought it a bit cruel but then the little blighters would only come back again.



Monday 9th February I was up at 5 a.m to go and sort the cattle in the correct pens!! Well that was a laugh, not really, because a gate was left open the day before and a lot of the cattle got out of the paddock. Rod and Dave could not find them, they had scarpered!! Rod had to get his plane out to see where they went. Great, he found them and drove them back to the holding pens for the slaughter poor things. I can understand why people are vegetarians. Anyway the day was very long we branded some and Rod said I could have a go at removing the balls. I tried but I guess my heart was not in it and I gave the knife back to Rod.



I got back to the house about 7 p.m and it was getting dark, found some food in the fridge a good slice of ham again. I took my plate to my bungalow, Rod calls it the cottage. Well I went to go to the toilet and guess what 5 baby FROGS were sitting on the loo seat. I cut one up and well, I was so fed upwith them I opened another bottle of the Red. I think I will have my ham for breakfast.

Tuesday 10th February Rod went to fetch his daughter a 500k around trip, nothing much to report really. Just one minor detail, the new outside water tank sprung a leak, the bung could not take the pressure. I climbed the Tower to have a look.

Wednesday February 11th Cleaned up the kitchen a bit, to help out, and cooked a meal

Thursday February 12th I had a look at a water pump no spark in the engine.

Friday February 13th I did some gardening and once I started I did not stop.

Saturday and Sunday 14th and 15th February. I just lazed around as I was rather stiff from gardening.

Monday 16th February I went in to Cunnamulla to do some shopping with Rod
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Friday February 20th I am still on the cattle/sheep farm observing everything that goes on. Life is rather busy on the station fixing everything, not me personally though. I have a lot of baby frogs that climb up the plug holes and particularly in the toilet in my cottage. At the House we have a vast number of large green frogs that croak. Mice as well, still that is farm life for you. To day we had a thunder storm and a nice lot of rain. It was a frog croaking day.

Saturday 21st I still cannot get on to the internet. Dan popped over to my cottage and I showed him a picture of my Morgan, which surprised him, as he had not seen a Morgan before.
We had dinner a joint effort, Rod and me. Rod cooked the lamb spare ribs and burnt them, I just had to smile, anyway it tasted quite nice. Dan went in to town to check out the nightlife he is only 20 years old. I helped out Rod with his computer he is just like I was when I first started so I felt quite good in being able to help him. He is quite nice when things are going well.

Plod Adventures No. 23

Sunday January 25th I was going to be on my way but we were invited out for lunch so I stayed, and Monday was Australian day, and so it goes on. I left Bill and Rosemary Tuesday morning and went up the coast to see see Geoff. I could of stayed but I had been static for too long and off I went.

I did not travel far as I was taking in the beautiful scenery. I stopped at Cruice Park according to my book it was supposed to be a good site, well it was really but on a very busy fast road so it was quite noisy. Anyway in the morning it was quite fun as a lot of travellers stopped to have a cup of tea, as usual I chatted to all, including a bunch of bikers. I drove off down a very pretty road past Somerset Dam and Esk. I have been on this road before, it is a lovely drive.

I stopped at a very nice site at Ravensboume 466 for those that have Camps4. I stayed another night here as I was on lovely green grass. Unfortunately it rained most of the night and in the morning the mist was so thick that you could hardly see in front of you. So I decided to head West instead, I left the U.K because of the rain.



January 30th After driving through very misty roads it started to clear near Toowoomba I bypassed the town as I had been here before. I reached Millmerran on the Gore HWY a very well kept small town. I stopped at Goondiwindi quite nice but not impressed but they had a very good bakers and they are hard to find in Australia. I reach my night spot 723 Nindigully Hotel an excellent spot right by the river several campers at this spot fishing and one man caught 5 turtle's. I strolled up to the pub it was happy hour so a beer was on the menu.

January 31st I greased up the shackle pins and repaired a mud flap on Plod not much else really generally lazed around watching people trying to catch fish instead of Turtles. The evening was great fun as a lot of very friendly bikers came in and stayed at the pub.

February 1st I was taken for a ride on a Harley Davidson Motorbike and time we had messed about as you do, it was lunch time so here I am another night at Nindigully Hotel.



February 2nd I went for a trip into St George brought some provisions drove back to Nindigully and then in the pub for a cold beer as it was happy hour, a lot of campers and locals were in the pub and a very interesting evening it was too. I went back to Plod and I cooked potatoes and some fresh fish for my evening meal.

February 3rd Time I was moving on so up to Mitchell I will go. I reached Mitchell at the Neil Turner Weir this was a lovely spot with nicely mowed lawns. Another camper was there as well.

February 4th I went on to Amby on my way to Roma in order to go on line at the Big4 site. I stopped at Amby where I had been before and was greeted with open arms. I got my usual deal free electricity and food for a little help around the place so I decided to stay a while. I am off to Charleville to watch how they do things out in the bush mustering up the cattle which I am very much looking forward to.