We do not mind that the little ones get a break. It is only when their break infringes on our choices that we begin to mind. We had to leave Caloundra because it was booked solid for the holidays. Now we are working out where we can and cannot go and still be able to get a place to stay because most places are full for the holidays.
Today we got away by 8.30am and decided to go to Bell via Nanango and Kingaroy. It was a lovely drive. It is a pity that all we saw was bare ploughed paddocks which told me that it is NOT peanut season, whatever the season is. Am slightly curious about the life cycle of a peanut. Somehow it has escaped my data input over the years. Ah well I guess there is always Google!
We stopped for lunch beside the Stuart River in a huge free camp but only had lunch and left. On the way to Bell, as we crossed the Bunya Range hills, we ran into a massive torrential downpour. Lots of water and wind, and it was grey and miserable as well! Got the windscreen washed, damn shame about the ute and caravan, if rainwater is so pure and clean, how come it makes the car and caravan so dirty?
Arriving in Bell in the middle of this downpour we missed the turn into their caravan park and there really was no where to turn to go back so we continued the extra 40kms to Dalby.
We are back in the same park we stayed at on the way into Caloundra a couple of weeks ago, and we like this one as we are parked on a bitumen slab so no matter how wet or wild the weather is tonight we will not sink down to our axles in mud by morning.On arrival we saw one permanent site with their free standing gazebo type carport totally ruined from today's storm.
The van beside us is the luckiest couple in Australia. They have a 20ft tandem axle caravan and the draw-bar snapped in two places out on the road, but lucky them it was after they came through the ranges. The good news is they could have died. The bad news (if there is any) is that they have to wait three days to get it fixed. Buggar!
Tomorrow we will move on towards Moonie, St George and Cunnamulla.
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