Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Well here we are again.  I know I've been slack with keeping the blogg up to date, but what do you say when nothing exciting has been happening.
We left Townsville after two weeks of relaxing and catching up with friends and old Police and Army work mates, and headed out through Charters Towers ( or The Towers as the locals call it) to Mt Isa.  On leaving the Isa we had a long grueling trip to Camooweal (ha ha) all 188 km of it, where we free camped beside the Georgina River for two nights.  A very relaxing place to camp.  From Camooweal onto the Barkley Homestead.  The only reason for this short trip was I've always wanted to stay at the Barkley Homestead.  It is a nice van park staffed by a number of English and Welsh backpackers.  I asked one of the girls what they did in their free time as it is such a remote place.  She stated that they did a lot of reading, swimming in the parks pool, sunbathing and doing the laundry.  Every so often they might get a trip away some where with some of the lads that come in from one of the remote stations.
From Barkley Homestead it was on to Wycliffe Wells on the Stuart Highway. It is toted as being the UFO Centre of Australia, however, we have nothing to report in that area as we never saw any extra terrestrials whilst we were there.  Our trip from Wycliffe to Alice Spring was uneventful arriving mid afternoon to our old stomping ground of two years ago.  Nothing has changed apart from the RSL being reopened.  We caught up with Sarah and the boys (Helen's sister in law and nephews) at the Ballet, yes I did say Ballet.  I might be getting older, however, I am becoming more cultured.  Jack, the oldest nephew (12 YO) was part of the "Corpse de Ballet (sounds posh don't it) so we went and see him dance.  It was a big thing for him as two of the Principle Dancers from the Australian Ballet were on the card.
The following week was the Ulysses Motor Cycle Clubs 31st AGM, the second time held here in Alice. I was very disappointed with the lack of traders attending and the lack of entertainment, who needs a heavy rock/blues grunge band at our age.  We did however catch up with a lot of friends from around the country.
We have now settled into the showgrounds for the next week or so then it will be on to Darwin leaving on Monday 2 June.
That's all for now. I will try to write more often as the trip to Darwin should prove to be a bit more exciting.
So until next time.
Take care and keep the shiny side up.
Love to all.

Helen and Col
"Old Farts on Tour" 

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