Had the car mostly packed and only needed to put the food in the fridge, so I ended up leaving home around 6am, refueled at the caltex getting onto the freeway and then headed north to meet up with Shane in the car park of the Yatala Pie Shop. Got there just after 7am as they were opening so I had to have a sausage roll, which was not too bad. We then headed north and turned off onto the Logan Motorway and headed west. There is fairly new road out this way so it was nice and easy before we turned off towards Esk.
We stopped in at the Wivenhoe spillway day use area for a few photos and a short break.
Back on the road and through Esk and quite a few other small towns before we turned off at Benarkin to have a drive into the forest to have a look at the camping areas. I haven't been to Benarkin for many years and I think there was even less water in the creek this time than there was then. Thankfully it was also not as hot as that trip where it was up over 40 degrees C from memory. Both camping areas were looking nice and green and there was only one tent in the first camping area so it would have been nice and quiet, although no swimming in the not existent river.
We continued on north to Nanango where we stopped for some lunch and Shane of course had to park his car in the big red shovel.
Then more norther with the occasional stop to stretch our legs and have a drink. We were both feeling a little snoozy so we ended up stopping early on the outskirts of Gayndah in a park by the side of the river. There was only a couple of caravans there and the breeze kept things cooler than it would have been.
After a bit of restful sitting around chatting we cooked dinner before the sun went down and went to bed bed relatively early. We had travelled about 460 Kms today and as we have no real plans of where to go we'll just wander on again tomorrow.
Sent from my iPhone
No comments:
Post a Comment