The Search For Beer

We went for a drive yesterday to Einasleigh to get Mick his weekly carton of beer.

We are so happy with how Silver drives on dirt roads and a bit of corrugation. De Mick had a bit of fun without the caravan attached.

Remember... the pub in Mt Surprise closed on Sunday night and unbeknownst to De Mick it would not open until Wednesday.

We were also wanting to check out where we would maybe stay for next few nights until our booking at Porcupine Gorge is available on Saturday.

But the Einasleigh Hotel in the bloody middle of nowhere, with a zillion road workers and caravaners, and on a main road to many sites didnt sell take away because they couldn't get trucks through all the time. Mick got 2 cans because they didnt pull ring top. And we headed back the 60ks of dirt road.

So we waited for 10am after packing up campsite and pulled into the Mt Surprise Hotel. It was closed.. there is a video of De Mick waiting for it to open. But it didn't open. So sad. De Mick knocked on the door. The publican was sweeping out the front and ignored Mick. When Mick asked him the fellow said he didnt open to 12. He was so rude. The sign said 10. And we were definitely not waiting or giving that rude man one iota of business.

The business is for sale and I agree totally with De Mick that it could be a very busy profitable business if it opened was friendlier as it is on a main thoroughfare up to Kurumba.

So the journey for beer continued and we changed plans and headed for The Oasis Roadhouse.

The beer is secure Repeat. The beer is secure though all they had was Great Northern.

And we are spending the night now here at the roadhouse and visiting Hughenden and Richmond over next few days before three nights at Porcupine Gorge.

There are pictures of emus. A picture of a cap in a garage. A photo of our awesome rest area for lunch where it was just so very quiet. And photos trying to capture driving around here. A photo of a vanilla slice. We forgot to take a photo of the meat pie.

I am astounded that the word of mouth travels so far. The owner of this little outback shanty caravan park makes chunky meat pies and vanilla slice every night. And every morning in the season he sells out of both and also makes a lot of coffees. And the rumours of how good they are are true. 14 for 2 pies and 24 for 4 of these huge vanilla slices.
The publican could take a leaf out of Russell's book.Read more