Brr it was cold when we woke up in Hughenden this morning, 8 degrees inside the caravan and a bitterly cold wind blowing outside. Up till the last few days we've had to remind ourselves this is winter, with temps up to 30 degrees. Today it warmed up, but when we stopped at Corfield for morning tea the wind was still cold and I kept my jumper on. Arrived in Winton at lunchtime, and it's now warm enough to take it off, just.
The road here was straight and constantly rising at a very gradual incline. Women would be well advised to wear a very firm bra because the road, although tarred all the way, at times has become corrugated through the black soil shrinking. You get jiggled about a lot. The strong winds make driving with the caravan harder, too.
Winton's not a bad town, a mixture of old and newer houses though nothing brand new apart from a really good covered skate park for kids. For the oldies there are bowls and golf clubs, three independent supermarkerts,wide streets with odd names like Manifold St, Sesibania St, Vindex St- some of them have trees in the middle, as does the main street with flowering plants and most of the businesses we need like hardware, bakery, hairdresser etc. Oh, and a cafe. No McDonald's, we haven't seen one of those since Mt Isa, and not for weeks prior to that, probably Cairns. Not that we miss them, of course.
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