It's so cold here at the moment! During the day it's OK, it's like 24 C. But during the evening and night it can be 10 C..brrr! We sleep under two blankets!
It feels really weird, it's the dry season here, so pretty much always sunshine and the sun is still strong, but they call it winter. At the moment it's tourist season here and we see a lot of campervans and caravans on the road. People from Southern Australia come here for the sun and the warmth (in the winter...). The wind is cold and we wear sweaters when we go to the beach, but also our sunhats and sunglasses. The sun goes down early, around 17.30 o'clock, so that feels like wintertime in Europe. At the same time it is our summerholiday, but here the kids are still in school, no long summerholiday, only a two weeks winterholiday and their school year contunues again.
Right...'hoezo verwarring' would we say in Dutch :-)

That's enought about that, I wanted to share with you a bit of the amazing day we had today. We drove a little bit in the direction of the Outback (only 180 km) to Charters Towers. I don't think they even call it the Outback yet, I think that that oficially starts like 50 km further on the road.. But anyway for us it was already pretty impressive. Especially Charters Towers is like a whole different world. It was like walking through a Wild Western town. Charters Towers is actually known for it's gold rush in the 19th century, but we were more interested in the nature, architecture and the indigenous people who were taken from their land and families when the white people claimed the land because of its gold.
During our stay here in Australia we have learned a bit about the indigenous people of Australia and on every interesting place we visited we have been looking for information about the indigenous people of that particulair place. We have also talked to some aboriginals and Torres Straite Islanders and their stories are all very impressive. I can tell you more about that in another post. For now some pictures of today: