We travelled from this lake to see the relatively new mining town of Glendon where they have this huge mine bucket. It was a very neat town but didn’t seem to be many people around.
At Collinsville we set up in another free camp at the Showgrounds where we were even able to hook up to water with other very good facilities provided. Collinsville is another mining town and the coal trains were running pretty regularly during the 24hrs. Across the road from our camp, we treated ourselves to a dinner out at the Workman’s Club where it was nice and cool. 
This town is called the Pit Pony town and this statue is an excellent model. There is another display telling the story of a sad occasion in 1954 when carbon dioxide killed 7 men and 2 pit ponies.
There is an iconic bush pub called the Bowen River Hotel about 35kms from Collinsville where we spent a very happy afternoon and enjoyed chatting to the owner who was a real character.
Today we travelled about 80kms to Bowen and along the way Mark was excited to take us to see Slug Rock. This turned out to be quite a different exercise as we couldn’t find a turnaround site so there was some reversing and turning around and then there was no way to actually access the rock! However, we made the most of our stop and had morning tea.
Greenwoods and Darryl and I have been to Bowen before but today realised we only saw one part of the town so it was a real eye opener to see areas we’ve never seen! Mark has some activities planned for us as well as the usual washing, shopping and cleaning. This will feature in the next blog. We’re all thinking of the southern states where the temperatures are falling whilst we are enjoying lovely warm weather. ❌❌❌❌❌❌
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