Maryborough, Qld There is so much to see in Maryborough. The showgrounds are large with spacious sites. Entry is from the Bruce Highway but camp sites are far enough away to be peaceful. You will need the car to explore … Continue reading Confessions of a Grey Nomad – The Places We Love
Day 44 Wednesday 21/6/2023 Maryborough, sunny 7 – 22 When a diesel heater starts it makes a tick, tick, ticking sound. Last night Elle woke to tick, tick, tick. She leapt out of bed to check the diesel heater and … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 44 – An author’s home
Day 42 Monday 19/6/2023 ‘Marybra’, warm 10 – 26 It’s a warm bright clear morning with dry air. Now is the time to get ahead of the little mouldy bits on the roof hatches again. We have a bush camp … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 42 – The Cistern Chapel
Day 41 Sunday 18/6/2023 Pomona to Maryborough, 8 – 24 With the legs up for a quick getaway, the van was a bit wobbly last night. It’s a clear cold morning. I don’t know what was in that chicken schnitzel … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 41 – Oh the joy of a level site
Maryborough, Vic A few more photographs of this impressive railway station. Sometimes we visit a town and rush to check out the railway station only to be disappointed. There’ll be little more than a ‘modern’ metal shelter and what may … Continue reading Maryborough Railway Station
Maryborough, Vic, Feb 2022 Erected in 1905 to celebrate the town’s golden jubilee this ornate band rotunda stands in Princes Park, Maryborough, Vic. The particularly ornate cast ironwork caught my eye and is recorded as being Late Victorian style. It’s … Continue reading Maryborough Golden Jubilee Band Rotunda
Day 5 Friday 4/2/2022 Maryborough, light breeze sunny 26 We have a feast of ducks on the lakeshore behind us. An Indian Runner and her clutch of ducklings graze on the lawn. The corellas are making an unholy noise in the trees above and sounding like 1000 broody hens. There are honeyeaters, wood ducks and swans as well as walkers circling the lake. Driving around town we have to visit the piece de resistance, the Maryborough Station. The railway station here is so large that Mark Twain was quoted as saying “You can put the whole population of Maryborough into … Continue reading To Great Western, Maryborough Railway Station
Day 4 Thursday 3/2/22 Maryborough, cold wind 22 The wind is most unpleasant and blows hard all day. Woody takes a few walks and we pop out to one of two Lyal Eales camping stores in Maryborough. You never know … Continue reading To Great Western, Maryborough – When Chinese becomes parmi
Day 3 Wednesday 2/2/22 Castlemaine to Maryborough, sunny breezy 21 It’s a cool morning. Woody discovers that he’s left the solar panels at home. The caravan has two batteries so we’ll just have to use our power a little smarter … Continue reading To Great Western, Maryborough
Whether it be through luck or good judgment some towns have saved some beautiful examples of iron lacework. These examples are from two very different towns. Firstly the raw mining town of Broken Hill in NSW with its juxtaposition of … Continue reading Iron Lacework of Broken Hill and Maryborough
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