KILKIVAN

Tuesday we left Cooroy after a lovely relaxing stay enjoying the campfire, quiet and good company. The lamb roast was just the best, we all enjoyed it very much looking forward to cooking in the camp oven again soon. On Monday we spent the afternoon in at Noosa after walking along Hasting Street and the Boardwalk we found ourselves a lovely spot on the Noosa River not far from a very popular fish & chips shop. We had decided to have a late lunch around 3pm then we would not have to have an evening meal (Bazza's stomach was touching his back bone by mid afternoon) it was very enjoyable.

We travelled as far as Gympie where we found a car wash that we were able to drive the caravan into, as by this time it was looking pretty shabby! We had washed the car while we were at Noosa, so after $13 we had a van that looks like someone still loves it. It took both of us working flat chat to get it somewhere near clean, not worth being too fussy as it will not stay this way for too long at least we can enjoy it for a couple of days.

We spent the night at Kilkivan Campground it was a lovely place to stay about 6klm in off the hwy, so it was very quiet. The relief caretakers Alan & Fran were a great couple and very hospitable with a Happy Hour around their campfire, just the place to hear the history of the area. The cemetery just up the road was actually the dead centre of the town until flooding had the Town relocated about 8klms away. The Campground used to be the local school, and some of the sites are situated on the old tennis courts, it was also a gold & copper mining area with some mines still working. Alan also entertained us was a few songs and played his guitar. makes you wish that we had some musical ability.In the toilet there was a sign "Green Frog Country" please close the lid, I was always wary when lifting the lid just in case the was a resident frog.

Today we have travelled through Kingaroy & Dalby and we are at a little roadside free camp at Warra which is about 40klms before Chinchilla. We had been going to stop at Dalby but thought we would go a little further, maybe we should have stopped as 20klms out of Dalby we had a large stone hit the windscreen and now have a large star crack on the passengers side. Last time we were on the road we had to replace the windscreen when we got home, so looks like we will be getting another one.