27th and 28th May, 2021
0 walking km
The plan was in place. But having seen the amount of plans I have thrown out so far my confidence wasn't high.
There was a real heavy dew last night and the tent fly was saturated. The ticket booking people said the bus leaves Charters Towers at 8 so be on the side of the at 8.10am. As Mingela is 48 km away I think he would take longer than 10 minutes. But as I wanted to hang my tent fly out for a bit I walked down and did it while waiting. The bus arrived at about 8.50 am.
I didn't move the age average on the bus at all. If I did it would have been down. Looks like Eventide emptied for a bingo run. It was pleasant to sit and look out the windows at the road I had driven so often. Not much had changed except the amount of traffic.
I was dropped of at Stockland Shops. Had a quick Pork roll for breakfast. Then took the long way on a bus into Townsville proper. It has certainly changed here but still quite dead. Wandered down to Reef HQ only to see the reef wonderland has gone derelict.
I walked out to the ferry terminal and sat waiting for the greyhound bus.
It arrived on time.... left about 4 minutes late then slowly got later as we hit all the roadworks. There should be a rule, you can only set up one roadwork traffic light every 200k. On the trip we had to stop for 5 of the things.
Arrived in Bowen 15 minutes late but I had a 30 minute leeway. There were only 2 of us on the Collinsville bus so we set off 5 minutes after I arrived.
On arrival in Collinsville I checked in at the Opal. Bit flash. Then raced down town to see what grub was on. I was a little disappointed. The Opal has a restaurant but top dollar, the pub I used to stay at has shut down. I wasn't impressed with the other so went to foodland and bought some crackers and cheese, a bottle of port and some lemon crisp biscuits. Still under the $38 for the steak dinner.
Day 42
Got up with a slight hangover. I was able to wash and dry my clothes in the motel laundry and watched some mindless television until I could walk to the post office. I picked up my parcel,went back and made the Pharmacy lady excited as I was the first electronic prescription they have had after installing the equipment and software. A curry pie for breakfast, then sorted my pack ready for the next leg.
Once I went back to the post office and sent forward my excess it was about lunchtime and I decided to do nothing for the afternoon. The next book is from Collinsville to Kabra and is mainly walking on roads through cattle country. I expect to speed up a little and will try and get as far south as I can before Belinda and Isabelle come visit in the July school holidays. That's the plan. Had many of them before.
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