1300SPARKE: One night in Hebel........

We thought we would just go for a drive and a bit of 4 wheel driving to boot!! After dodging dead cows, sheep and many a roo through Goodooga we wound our way to Hebel. Hebel is a Bordertown - 10 km's north from the Queensland border

When we arrived the Ipswich Car Rally were having a cool drink at the Hebel pub before heading to Birdsville.

We walked around and checked out some of their cars and then decided to go and join them

As it was voting day nearly every local dropped in for a few beers

We decided to settle in for the day (and night) and meet some local characters

After securing our accommodation for the night we relaxed and got amongst it

The pub is another golden oldie with loads of character and characters!!

The wooden boards have a downward slant (and no it wasn't due to alcohol)

Chris the publican is a top bloke and had a great yarn with him. He was trying to set us up with some local farmers for work - so a few business cards were handed around

Here is Buddy socialising with the locals

One of the many great people we met that night was Ned who is a local farmer - he owns a wheat, oat, cotton and cattle farm 30 kms out of town. He had a bet with Rob to see if he could fix his air conditioner the next day - fix it and I pay you including travel time - don't fix it I pay you nothing.

So after a hearty breakfast we headed out to Lowlands - Rob got on with his bet but after pulling the airconditioner apart realised the mice had chewed through numerous wires etc and was beyond repair.

Ned told us that's great least I know what's wrong - now he could just ring and get a replacement instead of waiting 5 weeks for someone to come and tell him that and another 6 weeks for a new one to be installed.

On the way out we followed him and he gave us a tour of his property