Travellin’ the Gibb.

They’re bungin’ some tar on the

Gibb River Road,

so hooray for the Nomads and their heavy load.

**

I travelled it once,

a fair time in the past…

Because it is so bloody marvellous, I must share with you the winning ABPA entry for this year -



A Bushman’s Last Farewell© 2011 - Catherine Clarke   

As a bushman I’ve been wandering for all my working life,
and I never settled down with home and family, a wife.
I just worked where work was going as a drover, station hand;
did some mustering and shearing, always working on the land. As the twilight of my years now finds me lost in solitude
and I…