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
Day 84 Thursday Aug 28th 2014 Gayndah to Maryborough We wake to a warm morning and the traffic that starts at about 6:00am. The mayor of North Burnett, Don Waugh drops by for a chat and to make sure that … Continue reading It’s a long way to the top, Day 84 – Marybra
Aug 2019, Maryborough, Qld In the heart of historic Maryborough, Qld you’ll find a small riverside caravan park situated on the Mary River wharf. Everything you’ll need is within a few blocks. This historic area is well worth a leisurely … Continue reading Maryborough’s Wharf RV Park
Aug 2018, Maryborough, Qld We’re having a rather social time in Maryborough catching up with ‘on the road’ friends, with family and others who’ve decided to put down roots at nearby Hervey Bay. Short on time Woody races into the … Continue reading Of tears and cheese
Aug 2018, Maryborough, Qld While we stay at Maryborough Showgrounds our mates R & T are comfortably setup at Maryborough Airport awaiting a caravan site at Hervey Bay. The Airport is a nice alternative for fully self-contained RV’s as it … Continue reading Options aplenty at Maryborough
The Maryborough Showgrounds is enormous. There’s plenty of room for camping, clean dunnies and only mild highway sounds in the distance. While we stay there’s a gymkhana, billy cart racing and some great country music happening way over the other side of the park. The sort of things that you would never, ever see in a caravan park. This is a perfect base for unhitching and exploring the Fraser Coast and historic Maryborough. Just passing through? What could be better than just swinging off the highway and putting your feet up here? Where: Bruce Highway, Maryborough, Qld and a short … Continue reading Maryborough Showgrounds
Helen Goff lived here. Helen Goff was born in this bank building in 1899. The daughter of bank manager Travers Goff, Helen is better known by her nom de plume P. L. Travers the author of Mary Poppins. Aug 2013 … Continue reading Helen Goff lived here
As we drive into Maryborough (pronounced Marybra) ‘D’ is excited as she has just spotted the Aldi supermarket and we haven’t seen one in weeks having been out in the sticks. The boys get to wondering aloud where the Dan Murphy liquor store is when a voice comes over the air “there’s a Dan Murphy’s in Richmond Street.” Yes, these UHF radios sure are handy. Continue reading Quicker than Google
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