Mike the RACQ tow truck driver arrived around 9am to load the ute for the trip to Charleville. He was a very friendly and easy to talk to guy and the 2.5 hr trip went relatively quickly as we chatted easily with him all the way there.
The guy from Cairns (Cindy and Russ will remember - the Blue Heeler van man) came over to see us and told us he had broken his rear canopy window.
The guys we had been chatting with last night also came out to see us off and we had almost everyone waving us off this am at the park - the lady in the office included.....very funny stuff!!!
I must say there is lots of wildlife along this road - including goats. We will have to be very wary on the return leg.
By god downtown Charleville is a hip hop happening place on a Sunday arvo - it's pretty much a ghost town!!!
No one around and nothing open!!!
We had lunch at the RSL and looks like that will be the go for dinner as well as no where else seems to be open - not even the hotel we are staying at.
At least the food was pretty good at the RSL.
We booked to go the Cosmos Night Observatory show tonight and it was great. They have an outdoor observatory ( the roof of the building slides back) and 4x impressive telescopes that they use for public viewing of the night sky. The staff were very knowledgeable and the presentation was really easy to understand and interesting.
* Alpha Centauri - brightest pointer of the the 2x pointers of the Southern Cross. Is actually 2x stars.
* a star cluster - which has red, yellow and blue stars in it - amazing to see.
* Moon
* Saturn - this was awesome - was a perfect view and crystal clear - able to see the rings and even a moon - the biggest of 16 Titan.
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