Day 90 Sunday, 7/8/2016, Burleigh Heads, warm morning, cool afternoon I walk along the beach, dolphins play in the surf behind the surfers. It’s a glorious morning. Green surf curls in. The skyscrapers of Surfers Paradise are in the distance. … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 90 – Breathtaking Burleigh
Day 89 Saturday, 6/8/2016, Toowoomba to Burleigh Heads, nice morning, cold ‘arvie’ (that’s Qld speak for arvo, sorry afternoon). After an ear popping 10% descent down the escarpment into the Lockyer Valley the highway is flanked with market gardens. It’s … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 89 – Back to the city
Day 88 Friday, 5/8/2016, Toowoomba, nice A few kilometres out of town in the suburb of Highfields a narrow road drops down the escarpment in a 21% descent into the Lockyer Valley. Tucked into the hillside directly below Highfields is … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 88 – Spring Bluff
Day 87 Thursday, 4/8/2016, Jondaryan to Toowoomba, a smidgeon warmer Before our bums have been warmed by the heated seats we’ve hit the outskirts of Toowoomba and boy it is larger than we had expected. With excitement we ditch the … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 87 – Toowoomba
Day 86 Wednesday, 3/8/2016, Jondaryan, absolutely freezing 9 degrees (ambient temperature 3 degrees) and more rain. Surely you can hustle up some snow! We don our winter woollies and gum boots and join a bunch of Japanese school kids, teenagers, … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 86 – A lesson in ovine plurals
Day 84 Monday, 1/8/2016, Kingaroy to Dalby, 2-24 degrees It’s an interesting drive down to Dalby on the very flat Darling Downs. The farms change from small paddocks of red soil in the hills to vast acreages of black soil. … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Days 84 & 85 – The Darling Downs
Day 83 Sunday, 31/7/2016, Kingaroy, cold night, beautiful day This morning tiny bikers are racing their machines around the arena. All decked out in their ‘leathers’ and helmets and knee high to a grasshopper they are. Bravely we decide to … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 83 – What a view?
Day 82 Saturday, 30/7/2016, Murgon to Kingaroy, brisk and clear There’s a caravan repair guy called Denis in Kingaroy so that pretty much sets the plan for today otherwise we could have crawled very slowly along this road. The old Wondai Railway Station is a free camp across the road from the pub and shops. Tiny Wooroolin grows peanuts and has a free camp beside a large wetland. Denis works from his home on a wooded hillside overlooking the red soil and patchwork quilt of farms of Kingaroy. He quickly rams more screws into our door frame than we’ll ever … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 82 – Kingaroy the Peanut Capital
Day 81 Friday, 29/7/2016, Bundaberg to Murgon, warm We wake to a mild morning after the first cold night in quite a while. Our mate El Prado had recommended the smoked meat butcher at Kilkivan (pronounced Killkeev’n) so we set off on a long haul shopping trip. Through Gin Gin and our favourite spot Childers, on to Sexie Coffie in Maryborough for some more freshly roasted beans then we turn west off the God awful Bruce Highway (we’re over highway traffic) through pretty little towns to Kilkivan. The butcher is indeed a beaut with a shop filled with smoked meats … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 81 – A Beaut Butchery
Day 80 Thursday, 28/7/2016, Yeppoon to Bundaberg, 23 degrees After having our dining table ripped from the caravan wall by potholes on the flood damaged Bruce Highway a few weeks ago, with every bump in the road now we think … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 80 – Binnowee Bush Camp
