Off the Tourist Route

We had fish n chips from Agnes Waters - very expensive - tried Baramundi $4.00AU per piece of fish but had to be tried. Phil thought it tasted like a mud fish - didn't really like it. Good news was that it was our first takeway food in Ozzie. Just as well as we couldn't afford to eat all the time with that sort of price. We left 1770 on Sunday morning (Happy Mothers Day Mums!!) after a visit to the local market and went to Mirium Vale and then down to Biggerdin where we had lunch at a park. We had brought fresh fruit from a honesty box road store and left one of our water melons behind! We stuck rain as we came down into Goomori - we were tried cheese at a cheese shop and brought an ice cream - ouch again $2.80AU per scoop - things are certainly more expensive here. We then went to Murgon and stayed in Burmbarbah Bush Park - this was voted by us all the best caravan park of the trip - it was so clean and tidy - saw a lot of kookaburras here - while the kids were playing cards one sat on the light and called to its mate the kids thought it was hilarious. We went down to spy the wallabies and on the way saw lots of lorrikeets - unfortunately no wallabies thou. The next day we went to a dairy farm out at Wheatlands - they have been in a drought for 10 years. Phil found this really interesting. Then down to Kingaroy - this was a lovely town and had really friendly staff at their visitors information centre. Kingaroy is know for its nuts so nuts were purchased here. We all tried boiled peanuts as well. Not my cup of tea but Phil enjoyed them. We then followed the highway down to Coolbuture which was just out from Brisbane - this caravan park was voted most scary - lots of permanent residents which was fine until one of them asked me if I was scared of the boogy man. Phil started to feel sick here and yesterday was not much better. He is going to the doctor today - think he has tonsillitis. We got back to the camper van depot around 12pm and check it back in. Just as well we had nil excess as it looks like we had hit something on the top of the sombero part - didn't feel anything thou and didn't even realise it was there but it definately wasn't there when we picked it us some must have been us. They rang a taxi van for us which took us back to the airport.