Sydney and I took the bus at noon to the train station (about 20 min). Babs was waiting for us over there as she left a day earlier from Noosa. She was accompanied by a German girl, and after a few minutes two Canadian boys and two other girls joined our group. Together we waited for the train to take us to the cattle station. In Queensland it is a fact that the trains are NEVER in time. So we waited and waited and waited even longer. Finally the train arrived and we went to the following stop, where we arrived after 3 hours. Then we took the bus (2,5h) to Rockhampton. At this station we took another bus that drove us to the cattle station. The first thing that caught my attention upon arrival, is that a saw a lot of swags lying on the grass. I felt my heart beating faster and faster. The only thing I was thinking, were the deadly animals that could have been around the swags. Babs and I were looking to each other like “Oh My God, are you kidding me?”
Swags are outside sleeping bags. Above your head you have a mosquito net, so you are able to watch the stars while falling asleep.
It was the first time since I had been in Australia, that I felt a little bit scared going to bed. You never know that some animal bites you and you can not even go to a doctor as there was no reception and it felt like we were in the middle of nowhere. Just surrounded by nature and animals. The animals I got to see were frogs, cockroaches and grasshoppers. Not really the animals you like to see around your swag.
Unfortunately, the moment we wanted to go to bed, it was cloudy so we could not see the stars while falling asleep.
Just additional information: Sydney didn’t join us as she thought she wouldn’t have time enough to spend on the cattle station, because she had to be in time in Airlie Beach to go for her sailing trip to Whitsundays the following day.