Cattle Station!

Day 67

We leave Hervey today :-( On the way to 1770 we stop at Childers to look at the memorial there – which is to 15 backpackers who lost their lives in a hostel fire – very very sad.

Southern cross, when we get there, is more of a resort than a hostel, it has a really nice pool, a lake to look at, and big grounds to walk around in – backpacker heaven!

It's Valentines day today, so the hostel has put on fun and games and free punch! It's therefore a very fun evening!

Day 68

We catch the first shuttle bus into the town of 1770, and, not finding a lot, head to the beach! There we see the oddest rocks, all pretty colours (green, blue, purple) and some of them in strange spider web patterns of what looks like rusty metal protruding from the rock as they have not eroded so quickly.... I am assuming that the rock is some kind of metal ore? It looks very pretty anyway.

We climb up a bit of the cliff to sunbathe so we dont get too sandy, and we watch Shaun and Charlie get another surfing lesson, then go back to discover the burn! Argh im in pain :-(

Day 69

spend the day inside hiding from the mean mean sun, and marking our room-mates English tests. He's Swiss and in Oz to learn the lingo, but boy his tests (just practice ones) are hard – we were struggling to answer some of his questions!

Day 70

Kroooooombit!

We leave the lovely southern cross for lochenbar cattle station in krrombit today, and eventually get there after an hours unplanned stop and a bus change (from the moment the bus started going I know we would never finish the journey in that thing – any vehicle making that noise is going to stop very shortly... I was surprised it lasted the hour or so that it did!)

It's amazing here! We round up some goaties on horseback, eat some fresh off the cow steak (although the bbq man did seem surprised at how rare I wanted mine to be!) shot a 12 bore shotgun (3/5 dead clay pigeons for me) learnt how to lassoo and practiced our skills in a goat rodeo (Shaun was goat catcher, I was goat tipper, mark was goat 'brander') rode a mechanical bull, and learnt how to crack a whip!!! Me and Charlie also shared a bottle of nice(ish) wine (not goon, yey!), and we were with a really nice bus full of people, so it was an absolutely awesome evening!