Rolling out of Rolleston

You can see the caravan park cat sunning itself on a chair outside the camp kitchen (top left pic).  I reckon he/she may have needed a catch-up kip after the local roosters announced the start of a new day - at 3:30am!

Early start aside, we liked our overnight stop.  There were broad-leafed bottle trees around the park, some babies and a huge one next to the amenities block.  (Our new towels had their first use that morning).

We re-fueled before leaving town (and also bought some bug cleaner additive for the windscreen washer reservoir, from the agricultural supply store across from the servo).

There were a couple of geocaches found along the way to Emerald, where we did a bit of grocery shopping.  We got some extras from BCF  - camping mats cos the few we brought with had been old and deteriorating (leaving green plastic dust on us and our bedding) and an armless camping chair for Nick, so he could comfortably play guitar of an evening.  I also bought some thongs, a dustpan set, tongs and a serving spoon from The Reject Shop. Yep, we hadn't been away for a while!

We re-fueled before leaving the "major regional service centre" of Emerald.  It was about an hour's drive to Bogantungan, where we stopped for lunch.  I needed the loo and loved the little one located beside the railway station building - with liquid soap zip-tied to the railway gate, next to an outside tap!  I posted a gold coin donation through the museum door after lunch. (Home-cooked corned beef on fresh bread rolls)!

Bogantungan was the site of Queenland's largest train crash in 1960.  You can read some of that story, here.  The article mentions a blog and I've read a bit more about the accident by following that link.