Kyogle Drive and Sunglasses

When we woke up it was still raining and it didn't look like it was getting any better any time soon. This is not how I imagined the summer in Australia. It as hot alright, but also very wet.
We weren't sure what to do for the day, so we drove up to, you may have guessed right, Tourist information to get some tips what to do on a rainy day in Kyogle.

The lady there was again very chatty but also very helpful and gave us a whole bag of information papers (incl. some pencils for the kids).

On the way there (to the tourist information) Karsten realized that his new 200 $ sunglasses are no longer in the car. He probably left them lying at the counter of the Pizza place yesterday. Of course this place didn't open until the afternoon.

So we had some time to do one of the drives that we were told about at the Tourist information and come back to the Pizza place when it is open to ask if they had found the sun glasses.

So we went on the drive to the around the western country side of Kyogle to the Toonumbar Dam and reservoir. After some time the road became a gravel track and we were riding along just fine in our Hyundai Accent.

The road was very quite and we may only have seen 1 or 2 cars in an hour. Instead of a lot of cars we saw a lot of kangaroos though.

There were at least 5 or 6 that jumped from the street into the bushes and fields when we were approaching with our car. Unfortunately I didn't get a good shot (with my camera) of them, but when we stopped at a lookout we spotted two "Roos" sitting on the grass. I went a bit closer to get a better shot and after some consideration whether to run or stay, and me getting closer, the Kangaroos jumped away but I did get a good shot of them.

Along the road back to Kyogle we passed through a farm where a very protective dog ran along side our car in order to protect his cows.

Back in Kyogle we checked in with the Pizza people but they had not found the sun glasses.

From here grumpy Karsten drove us to the next larger town south of Kyogle called Casino. Here we wanted to find a camp ground for the night.

The tourist information was close but they had (like all the other) some information about accommodation hanging in their windows. We rang one of the camp grounds and they had plenty of space available.

In the Hinterland it does not seem to be overly busy at this time of the year.

Karsten even found his sun glasses in the car again... so the beers were on him this night.

It was BBQ time again and we got some steaks, tomatoes and onions at Aldi (yes they have that here as well) and enjoyed a nice evening at the Camp Ground.

As the Skat game was to much brain work we decided to further improve our Chinese Card Game skills that evening.