Leaving home (Cooroy) Thursday 12th March, we wended our way through Beewah, Kilcoy, Esk and then on to Gatton. Turning off just past Gatton on to Heiffer Creek Road, we found the free roadside camp, where we were to spend the night. There were a couple of other caravans there for company and it was a lovely moonlight night. Next day, as we drove to Goondiwindi, I couldn't help noticing the patches of prickly pear cactus along the roadside. It is still a noxious weed in Queensland and was a great problem to the farmers. I remember being taught at school (many years ago) about the CSIRO introducing a cactus eating beetle to the area to eradicate the problem. However there are still isolated patches of it still around.
We spent two nights at a caravan park in Goondiwindi, which gave us time to have a bit of a look around the town. I thought the Victoria Hotel in the main street was an interesting building.
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| Victoria Hotel, Goondiwindi |
Also the we found the statue of the famous Queensland racehorse "Gunsynd" who came from this area.
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| "Gunsynd", the" Goondiwindi Grey" |
Between Goondiwindi and Narrabri we saw cotton fields. Scattered along the sides of the road were little puff balls of cotton which looked very much like snow. In the fields we saw huge harvesting machinery and large bales of cotton covered with tarps waiting to be transported to the mills.
Today Sunday, we drove to Narrabri and on to Wee Waa which didn't seem very impressive. Max had a look through the museum there. We didn't think either of the two caravan parks looked very inviting so we headed back here to Narrabri for the night.
Great little blog, Heather! What fun to be vicariously travelling 'with' you as you go. xoxo from Hobart
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