Ranmoor

So after getting into the car with a Sally who was just flying back to Townsville after dropping off her youngest son at a boarding school near Brisbane we headed off toward the outback. We stopped in Charters Towers which is about 3 hours out of Townsville where her parents have retired to and had a bit of lunch and some black tea. We then continued on the Flinders Highway and I got to watch the country roll by. At first it was a very scrubish landscape with lots of trees and bushes and not much grass and then suddenly it opened up into beautiful wide open grassland. I got to watch the sun set over the plains which was stunning. Sally who is very into photography reckons it is a photographers paradise where there is always a beautiful picture to be had.

After the sun had set we arrived at Ranmoor (the name of the ranch) where I stumbled in and met the rest of the family who was home; Steve, Rose and her governess Belinda. George, Whitney, and Henry were away at boarding school near Brisbane. So I climbed in bed and had to wait for the morning to see what I had gotten myself into.