I should have been warned by the creative landscape sculptures on the side of the road in the last 50 ks into Birdsville. I had a romantic picture in my head of this iconic pub standing alone in the baking sun. Mmmmmm! Birdsville Bollywood keeps creeping into my mind now. The 80 Nissan 4x4s (celebrating 50 years of Nissan in Australia) crawling over everything like flies doesn't help but commercialism has really hit here. All I can say is after dinner at the pub we will escape to a bush camp tomorrow. The one thing that did catch our imagination is the bush camp they have set up for the horse owners, horses, jockeys and trainers out along the river for the famous race meeting.