Onto Brisbane

We had a great night at this free spot at the Chinchilla weir - it's even possible to have access to free power but we didn't need that. The local shire look after the place and think it's worth it as people come here and spend $$ in the town.  Chinchilla seems to be a thriving place on the fringe of the Darling Downs. We had a cute mumma possum visit us and share our chops!  

 

         

   

Dennis made more bread - too much for us humans but the leftovers proved popular with the possum and birds! 

       

It was chilly this morning and we still haven't got the knack of setting up so we get the morning sun! We had to wait a while for the canvas to dry out as we won't be sleeping in our campers this weekend. We are going to be living in luxury in a house - at Rob & Pru's. We won't know ourselves! 

On the way to Towoomba we passed through Dennis's birth place Dalby - their most famous son! (Well we think so) 

     

We had a tour of Towoomba looking for the house the Greenwoods lived in but couldn't find anything familiar so assume it's gone. We had no idea Towoomba was elevated in the dividing range and heading out towards Brisbane you come down 4 or 5 kms of steep decline to the Lockyer Valley. Now we understand how the flooding occurred. 

We decided to travel this route to avoid traffic on the Bruce Highway - well, we were wrong!  This Warrego Highway is the busiest we've been on with an unbelievable amount of roadworks -  so it's been a very slow journey!  Can't wait to get on outback roads again! 

We are now at the beautiful Greenwood resort and seeing we don't have to set up campers have settled down by a fire Rob has lit with a champagne and beer! I think this respite will be a bit of heaven!

        

Good luck to all those involved in sports this weekend! Xxxxxx from us here in paradise