The Hawk's win and a couple of lazy days in Tenterfield

Grand Final Day today, we had a quick breaky and packed up once more, gee we are really starting to get the hang of this, packing & unpacking, it is almost down to a fine art.
We needed to find a town with a pub showing the Grand Final not to mention some where to camp for the night. At about 10am we arrived at Tenterfield, quite a nice town on the top of the Great Dividing Ranges, we found the local information booth and asked if you could still camp at the Show Grounds as we had heard from a fellow traveler the day before, and sure enough you can! It is much cheaper than a van park and you still get water, electricity, flushing toilets & a hot shower. We soon discover it was not much of a walk to anywhere around town from the Show Grounds, which is good cause once the annex is up and attached to the Tojo, it does make it a little hard to move, not impossible but a little hard.
We found the Royal Hotel (you can see the big neon sign from our campsite) and asked the bartender if they were showing the AFL Grand Final, she was very gracious, if we wanted to watch it we were welcome, gee the country folk are so laid back & friendly it is really nice. After a few beers and some small talk with a few of the other people who also rocked up to watch the Grand Final, I looked out the window and saw some smoke billowing for the near by hill! I quickly asked the bar folk their thoughts of this plume of smoke which did seam to be growing larger by the minute, well….. apparently none of them lived over there so they were not bother by it much at all! Hence I was getting a little worried myself. When the footy finished “Go the Hawks!” we strolled on down to the car and I noticed right next to the Show Grounds is the Country Fire Service, and after seeing them not bothered by the fire, I relaxed. We went back to the pub for a counter meal, only our 2nd for the trip, a very nice T-bone & pasta dish. It was an eerie walk back to the camp with all the streets filled with smoke.


Well it seems we drank a bit more than expected yesterday during the footy, the beer was so cheap only $3.80 per scooner (in Adelaide that is what we call a pint) so today we had a sleep in and just had a lazy day hanging around sleeping, eating, relaxing.
We did work up the effort to go for a walk around town & find that launderette we had seen on the way into to town, the car is getting a bit stinky, so I bought a magic tree to hide the smell, well I was shocked at the price at this place $4.00 a load! last time we used a launderette it was only $2.40, but I suppose that may have been because it was in a caravan park I will have to keep track of this. I know Andy told you about the washing machine the other day, and it works really well but it took 3 days to do the last load, so plenty of dirty things have built up since.