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Roadhouse post #18

7/3/2012

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 The local station owners included a lawyer who gave up city life and bought a huge dirt bowl of a station called Woolbah. Every time the weather came on the TV there would be a cloud band either side but never over his station. He named it the 'Woolbah Gap'. Another great character was Johnny Crocker. Johnny graded the airstrip for us and his mother was the artist who painted the pictures of the camel trains. Johnny's pride was his yellow Corvette Stingray. He used to race the police up and down the highway.
But the best story was the story of the family who owned Frazer Range station. The Pauls were a massive tribe with very little knowledge of farming. The father was a retired clown. They'd pull up at the roadhouse occasionally, masses of kids fighting for position on sofa on the back of the truck. Local aboriginies told them how to catch water by building run offs on top of small mounds with rows of stones but they never listened and their station was always a dry and desperate place... 

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