Lester Paul Cain RIP

Lester’s service is at 11am tomorrow, 20th, in Winton Shire Hall.

He is being buried at the cemetery at Middleton on Tuesday @ 10.30am.

RIP Old cowboy.

Bob

Lester was a classic outback character who loved that country.

When we arrived at Middleton his response to us was polite but not fully engaged. I wasn’t sure if he was ‘listening' to us, just being ‘polite’.

When he realised that we had not just driven there along the bitumen like the majority of his customers, but had come across the country he loved via Lochern NP & the Diamantina NP he became far more animated & it became clear that he had in fact listened to *everything* we had said previously. He went on to direct us to a gorgeous but little used camp spot not too far away. A lovely bloke.

RIP Lester………..”yemmate".

We have been to Middleton several times and met Lester. The first time we were there - two Englishmen walked into the bar with Lester standing there in his bare feet, shorts and t-shirt. They were on their way to Cairns on their BMW motorcycles after having just crossed the GCR and Plenty Hwy.
They asked for two cups of tea - one with sugar.
Lester returned with the tea and placed them on the bar. “Which one is the sugar?” asked one of the bike riders. Lester picked one up and took a large sip. He pointed to the cup still on the bar. “That one”.
The two Englishmen were horrified with pained looks on their faces. Everyone else was in hysterics!

A wonderfully unique outback character. RIP.

He mustered camels with a friend of my parents a long time back in his Mt Chalmers time. I never shook his hand.