Day 19 - Wednesday 24th September, 2025
Later start this morning and we are parting ways with Doreen and Razzle today, who need to head back to Emerald to have their Ranger serviced before continuing on to Gladstone to meet other friends and we have to be home in three days. We decided on breakfas at the other cafe in Tambo - Mary and Martha's Coffee House, so we packed up and said our farewell to Doreen and Razzle.
Breakfast we really yummy at the cafe and reasonably priced. We ran into Doreen and Razzle coming out of the Tambo Teddy shop, she had to buy a teddy for their grandson.
Tonight's destination is a free camp just outside of Mitchell called Fisherman's Rest. As like many places on this trip, we stayed here about 20 years ago and remember it to be a very nice spot. We arrived at Fisherman's Rest around 3pm and it still looks lovely, right on the Maranoa River with a drop toilet and some rubbish bins. There are a few people camped here and unfortunately the best spot right next to the river are already taken, of course, so we found ourselves a little spot down the end that was a bit sandy so we just put our mat down.
About 4.30pm we hear the roar of a V8 come in just near us and low and behold it's the Lady Renee who was camped behind us at Tambo, who is travelling with her two dogs, a pet snake (yep you read that right) in a Landcruiser 79 Wagon and kick arse caravan, really great set up for her home on wheels. Renee is really lovely and her Beagle pup loved playing with Barney, but not so much the older and cranky chihuahua. It was nice to see her again and I had told her last night we were headed to Fisherman's Rest today, although her destination was elsewhere Renee had received a call in Augethella this morning offering her a job around Dalby on a property, so she decided to head here instead on her way to the job.
A quite night with a campfire and some butter chicken, rice and popadoms cooked over that fire.
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