March 2016

12 March 2016

March sure has been marching along (pun intended) and we wish we could say the same about the Sorghum Harvest. The earlier rain meant a delay in harvesting and since then there have been other delays. With so many people planting Sorghum this year and China not buying, the price has dropped quite a lot and so the farmers are not sending as much in, opting to either sell it direct to feed lots, take it direct to the Port in Brisbane or to store it on farm in the hope that the price will go up.

In the meantime we have been slowly and steadily building the bunker with the 25,000 tonnes that has come in but we feel that 'the end is nigh' (well in a week or so maybe), and when it does come we will be heading South to Melbourne for an important family occasion.

And we have been enjoying the huge banks of cloud that come up over the Eastern horizon as we look towards Toowoomba, but not enjoying them when they come over us and raise the humidity level.

Range Clouds

Another bank of huge clouds rises over Toowoomba and the range.

The 2016 Sorghum harvest has come to an end and so we are back in touring mode, but not before an exciting project we have been working on for the past month or so comes to fruition. Leaving our camp spot behind the Bowenville Pub we moved back to the Tractor Pull at Biddestone and then in the afternoon we drove into Toowoomba and picked up our new wheels, a Mazda BT50 4x4 Freestyle cab.

After Easter we moved AJ into the yard at Winjanna 5th Wheelers and began the transition out of AJ and into our yet to be named new home, an Ormiston 630 Off Road 5th Wheeler.

More information on our new rig can be found here.

And so as March comes to an exciting end we left the yard at Winjanna and took the short drive to Clifton where we parked up in our new rig for our first night in it on the road. Tomorrow we will head South leaving the hot and humid air of the Darling Downs for the cooler weather (hopefully) in Victoria, and then we will have to figure out where to go next as the real outback really beckons.

Mark Twain once said "...years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do that by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - and so we will.