Day 20 and 21 - Roma

 

Day 20 and 21 - Roma.

We have been plagued with westerly winds since St George which is playing havoc with my allergies.  The dust!!!

Roma is located at the junction of the Warrego and Carnarvon Highways.    Known as the birthplace of Australia's Oil and Gas Industry.  

We treated ourselves to the Big Rig night show which gave us a great insight into the early days of water, oil and gas exploration in Roma.

Roma has one of the biggest bottle trees.  It has a diameter of 9.51m a height of 6m and a crown of 20m.   The town also has a an "Avenue of Heroes" which has planted bottle trees either side with plaques in honour of the servicemen from Roma who served during the First World War.

We also took a tour of the "Up the Creek Garage".  What a unusual museum.   The owners showed us around giving us an insight into their passion for travelling and cars.   All of the cars, which there are so many of, are owned by their family.    They also have two longhorn texas cows in the yard.  Fords and Holdens mainly.   Eat your hearts out boys!

There is also a sculpture exhibition on down near the Big Rig so we took the time to wander through these being totally amazed and in awe of peoples creativity, talent and resourcefulness.  Look closely and see what you can recognise in the makeup of these sculptures.

Our last night we spent at the Gun Club was enjoying a cool ale and the company of the fellow travellers before throwing a lamb steak on the barbie and enjoying the sunset,

The weather is warming up even thinking about taking the jumper off.