Sunday 27.5.12

Just returned home from Mass. Still in Barcaldine on this Pentecost Sunday. It was  a farewell mass for the bishop who is retiring. From the brief time we heard and saw him he seemed lovely. Talked about us being the hands and heart of Jesus. It is only a tiny church but the priest has to cover a large area. The church was beautifully decorated with many red poinsetias. They grow to quite large trees up here. We enjoyed the whole liturgy and we knew lots of the hymns. The lady who was the welcomer at chu4ch, was also the lady we had chatted with at the information centre yesterday. It was very ecumenical with representatives from other churches also expressing their thanks to the bishop.

We had a slow start to our day and rode our bikes to a place called Roses and things. It is a little coffee/ gift shop in a small caravan park. They claim to have over 1000 different kinds of roses. The garden was lovely and we were able to sit outside under cover. We had Devonshire tea- bit pricey – but the gift shop had very reasonable prices. Beautiful glass birdbath that I resisted!

Morning Tea

Then we decided to ride around to the cemetery again. On our way we passed some brolgas walking along the street. They are a much bigger bird then what I expected. I spoke to a lady and she leaves out water and food for them. There were a couple more brolgas up the road and the first lot chased them off. The lady said they are very territorial.

Brolgas

It is warmer then yesterday so after our ride we relaxed. We then had another rummicub challenge with Tony and Clare. They bought their tiles with them. Much smaller tiles.

Then it was off to billy tea and damper! As you can see it is all quite tiring and Adrian and I have trouble keeping up with the pace!

We found out that we can do a tour to places we can’t access, so we are going tomorrow. Should be fun . Importantly they provide us with morning and afternoon tea and lunch! More next time.  We will be staying in Barcaldine till Tuesday morning then on to Longreach.