For the first morning since Coober Pedy, Mandy donned a windcheater at breakfast time (the wimp). A coolish night for the first time since leaving Alice Springs, yet two or three nights ago we needed the fan.
Hughenden was a disappointment for morning tea. It looked like it wasn't being cared for. At the park the grass was long, the activities broken and the toilets faulty. Not a patch on Cloncurry yesterday.
Lunch at a roadside stop, and into Charters Towers about 2:30. After unloading we had afternoon tea in a coffee shop in town (we're back in civilisation) and we did the heritage walk. It must have been a large place between 1880 and 1910 when the gold was plentiful. Had the only stock exchange outside of a capital city, and a population of 30,000 people. The local pub employed 30 barmaids on Saturday nights.
The difference in the country side each side of the Great Dividing Range, which we crossed today, is remarkable. We now have grass and trees instead of bushes and scrub.
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