Yesterday we profited from a 45km an hour wind on our tail which aided us getting to Roma ahead of schedule. Wednesday night we spent at Tambo on our way south from Longreach, supposedly making for Charleville. But the serious tailwind combined with an eagerness for a change of scenery, we continued straight on at Morven and gave Charleville—on a road back toward central Australia—the big flick.
Passing through the arid regions can be quite dispiriting.
And for nearly a thousand kilometres from before Winton heading south, the roadkill tally numbered in the 1,000’s. Small kangaroos, rabbits, emus, wombats, eagles and even feral pigs all met with a mangled end. More meat, with everything from very fresh to putrid with bones protruding, to feed colonies of kite and crows alike. Dodging fat carcasses in the middle of the road took great care lest we too became just another roadkill statistic.
Kilometres from Roma we encountered the wide sweeping plains of the Western Downs of Queensland. Majestic hectare upon thousands of hectares of thriving green crops.
What a change!
With spirits buoyed by the dramatic metamorphosis the smiles slipped by as we reached Roma.
I think we could easily spend a week in this idyllic town, before catching up with friends at Condamine and finally un- hitching the van to spend a few days with Dorothy O’Connor in Toowoomba.
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