Day 3

Cunnamulla to Roma via St George and Surat, Outback Queensland. This is the Shire Hall in Surat, population 407, according to the 2016 Census. Shire Hall inaugurated in1930. Features include a three-sided clock stopped for some reason at midnight, or midday. Note also the circular ventilating windows, a design feature peculiar to the structure. Surat named for Surat in Bombay Province before partition. Something about remote country towns that is affirming, gotta say.