Of drought and flooding rains....

I was only looking at photos of floods out that way about 2 or 3 years ago. Ended up camping out the back of the Walkabout Pub for a night. Incredibly how slippery that black soil is too. Had to snatch a bloke across the road from the pub when he drove off the road to use the telephone box. We watched him trying to get out from the verandah drinking nice cold beer. This is after I spent about half an hour trying to clean my IPF spotties because when I pulled up at the Walkabout a patron noticed they were half full of muddy water. :)

THe interesting thing is how easy it is for us Australians to use the floods as a damn good excuse to not work. You wouldn't believe how many people were 'stuck' for days.

Unfortunately I had to get back to Townsville that day for personal reasons and found my way through back roads (development roads).