Outside the local railway station is the Tree of Knowledge. It was under this tree that striking shearers founded the Australian Labour Party in 1891.
The original tree was found to have die-back in 1991 and a vandal also poisoned it, so it was removed and a memorial has been made on the site of the remains of the original tree. Must be hot in Barcaldine, we noticed five big pubs in a row in the main street!
Moving on we turned east and headed back toward the coast travelling through Emerald where we again turned, this time to the south and spent the night at a little town called Springsure. As we were leaving the next morning Himself noticed that one of the tyres on the caravan, which he had had his eye on for a few weeks, was now critical, so off we went to the local tyre dealer and bought four new tyres for the ute and had them put the partly used ones onto the caravan. After all that excitement we continued east to Biloela. Next morning we got up and had a pleasant drive through the hills where we had a gander at Gayndah on our way south east to Gympie.
At Gympie we went shopping for spare parts for our caravan and then spent the night in a small caravan park attached to a roadhouse just out of town on the road south. What a lovely little park. We were parked on the back fence and had the most magnificent country views I have seen in a while. The paddocks were green and the country was gently undulating with the Mary River tree line in the distance. In the foreground were cattle and horses grazing quietly while we watched a beautiful sunset. Perfect.
From there we have moved to Caloundra and are enjoying time with the daughter and her family.
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