Thierings on Tour

It was a beautiful sunrise this morning and Scarly and I enjoyed the views and even a little rainbow cluster in the sky.

The temperatures felt arctic this morning so everyone was rugged up as we had breakfast and packed up. Setting up and packing down for 1 night stays is rather draining, I won’t lie. How I look forward to another 2 night stay somewhere soon… 

Whilst Chris identified and was working on a van tyre valve issue the girls and I explored the surroundings of the Roadhouse a bit more. We found a wishing well and an old car, that the girls were fascinated by.

The trip today was a bit smoother as we are mostly out of corrugated sections now and mostly on bitumen. Some of the views as we climbed higher up into the mountains again were beautiful!

The girls also had a lot of fun with using a Darwin Plum (a curios salty sweet snack) as lipstick. So whilst the snack didn’t pass the test from an eating perspective it sure made for a great time killer as everyone had orange lips to pucker up 😂
Whatever gets us through the long drives, I say!

We got to Lake Tinaroo and whilst I had a few meetings Chris took the girls to the splash park (even though the water was freezing). They also set up and Scarly is getting so good at winding the stabiliser legs! Go girl.

Our dirty van and car stood out and attracted a lot of questions on whether we had been to the tip and what the best places to do/stay would be.

It’s such a great spot to base yourself for the area and the park had lots of fun stuff for the kids, including the bouncy pillow that they had all to themselves.

We did a massive food shop to keep us going for a while longer and to replenish the limited supplies we had after the Cape and then lucky for Chris there was a big TV in the kitchen area to watch the State of Origin game. 

Kms travelled – 231