So here we are in Lakeland, Far North Queensland. There are no lakes here. Just miles and miles of cow pastures, occasionally interuppted by a large banana farm, teak plantation, or cattle station. The town is mostly full of farm workers, most of which keep to themselves and arent allowed to go to the pub. We're staying at the Lakeland Caravan Park where we there are some more workers, some of which we have made really good friends with. Yay!
Lakeland is one of the very few stops on the way to Cape York, so we get a lot of people stopping off for diesel and petrol for their boats, so the Roadhouse where we work is sometimes pretty busy. Not often though. Its usually fairly dead.
The weather is super duper hot right now, but yesterday we went to a local farm that has a dam so we could have a little swim and play on a boat. It was awesome, we're definitely going to head up there again.
We're quite isolated up here - the closest supermarket is in cooktown, an hour away, but since we have a van its easy to get around and see stuff. There are some aboriginal cave paintings up the road, another smalltown called Laura, an awesome bush pub called the Lions Den, and some creeks you can swim in that are free of crocs. Its just hardtoget the energy to do antything when the temperature is in the 30s all the time.
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| Cook Point. Or hill. or something with Cook in the name, anyway. |
We've been lucky in that wehave met so many awesome people to hang out with. A few of the banana farm workers are from the UK, as well as a couple of the girlsin the pub, so we made friends here really easily. The good thing about working here isthat there are not much opportunities to spend the money we are earning. The bad thing is that the pub is one of those places.
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| Bushfire!!! |
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