Lessons learnt

We have all learnt a few lessons:-

Don't judge a book by its cover - appearances don't matter in the outback, unlike in the city.  The 'jo blow' next to you may own a station and property - as does the garbo. man in Blackall, he has 10 properties and a station outback which he has managers for and runs his garbage business in Blackall because that is what he enjoys doing.

Have a great respect for the road trains - which can get to 50 metres long and when they overtake you at 100km an hour you let them go because it can be intimidating having these long things filled with any cargo keep on passing you.

Don't get too upset at the amount of dead roos on the road - I hated seeing them but that is all the distraction there is on the long, flat, mind numbing roads with nothing else to look at because the countryside is so boring.  You start to count them but there is one very couple of metres at some points on some parts of the road.  Once we got to the Darling Downs and parts of the Western Downs they all but disappeared.

Every c/van park we have been to and free sites as well have been TOTALLY DOG FRIENDLY and a lot of people are travelling with at least two dogs and one lady in Bowen had 5.  These parks seem to have dogs of their own too.

It is just the ignorant councils on the Tweed, Gold and Sunshine coasts that need to get their acts together, stop being so arrogant and start thinking of the travelling ' grey nomads' which bring a lot of 'dosh' to each of their regions.  A couple of outgoing c/van parks who will stick their fingers up at the councils would get so much business from the doggie travellers they wouldn't need anyone else.

However, to travel around Australia - NO WAY.