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
Day 79 Wednesday, 27/7/2016, Yeppoon, warm At last the car is ready. The part had been sent to the service centres’ old address. Time to pack. 2021 Note: This enforced break on the Capricorn Coast was a Godsend. It introduced us to an area that we had overlooked. A pretty stretch of semi urban coastline with views to the Keppel Islands, good shopping, a National Park that is worth exploring and the city of Rockhampton only 70kms away. To say that we were hooked is an understatement, we have returned twice and we’re still finding different things to do and … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 79 – Time to go
Day 78 Tuesday, 26/7/2016, Yeppoon, 22 degrees Still no spare part. We’re starting to have long conversations with the resident emu every day. Rather than stress we tour the seriously steep streets of Emu Park. O My God Hill in … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 78 – Talking to the birds
Day 77 Monday, 25/7/2016, Yeppoon, sunny and warm The repairer is still waiting for our car part to arrive and I think we’re losing it. On our way to do the shopping in Yeppoon we were seduced by Rosslyn Bay Seafoods down at the marina. We quickly returned to camp, broke out the white wine and ripped into a mess of prawns. The shopping can wait. Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 77 – Seafood Therapy
