DAY 27 14 JULY HELLS GATE ROADHOUSE REST DAY
Washing into the machine and the day’s work was pretty much done.
I asked the backpackers behind the counter for a largish tin can so I could try making a Hobo Stove. This made one girl’s day as she got to ride the roadhouse motorcycle down to the dump to get one.
Knocked some appropriate holes in top and bottom of the can and lit it up. It worked to boil water eventually by needed constant attention to keep feeding small sticks in to burn. Enlarged the holes to improve performance but haven’t tried to use it again. Yet.
Turned out that the Hells Gate Roadhouse is within “Clifton Hills” station and John Hayes owns and operates both for the last 18 months.
John is a talkative people person.
It turns out that John adjusted sheep on the old family station “Lucella” at Winton just after my brother Peter took it over in the very early 1980’s. Peter had no stock at the time and was shearing dead sheep found in trucks to get his first woolclip!
Small world. We told a few stories about people and places we knew in common. Very nice.
At nightfall a four trailer cattle roadtrain turned up so many campers went out to admire the huge truck.
And the sign warning of the distance, 320km, to Borroloola
