Just when you were wondering whether or not we were still alive, here we are again. We have a good reason for not writing for a while and I’ll try and explain it as briefly as possible.
We had always intended to travel up through the inland parts of New South Wales and Queensland, and of course visit CAMERON CORNER on the way. However, because the flood waters kept disrupting our plans, we began to think about the possibility of going out to the GOLD COAST to visit Christel’s brother Ron and his family.
We rang Ron and Leanne and arranged to spend the weekend of 30th April and 1st and 2nd May with them. Christel decided it would be a nice surprise for her mum and dad if she rang her from there, so our arrangements had to be hush-hush. Consequently we had to slow the blog down and tell a few little porkies in order to surprise Riet and Joe. See all the trouble you made us go? We decided we would make our way slowly across towards the GOLD COAST, taking the caravan as far as WARWICK where we would store it, while we visited Ron and Leanne.
However that is all over with now, so we can continue our journey where we left off, which was on Monday the 25th, and we had been enjoying the sights at NARRABRI.
Tuesday 26th April
This morning we left NARRABRI and headed north for 100km to the town of MOREE where we turned east for 140 KM through WARRIALDA and on to INVERELL where we stayed the night.
From the Information Centre we found out that INVERELL had a Transport Museum which was highly recommended, so we spent the afternoon there. A brilliant museum, where Cameron went berserk with his camera, taking over 140 photos. They had several vintage cars there which were the only known examples of their kind still in existence.
The display also included push bikes, motorbikes, prams and a huge collection of very life like dolls which a local lady had made.
Unfortunately the visit was spoilt a bit for me by the overzealous volunteer, who insisted on accompanying me around and giving me a 5000 word dissertation on everything I stopped to look at. To say this bloke knew his stuff and was keen to share it would be like saying there isn’t much sand in the desert.
He knew everything about everything. If I stopped to look at an old car, I immediately learnt who built it, when they built it, why they built it, how they built it, where they built it, how many they made, why they made that many, why they didn’t make any more, who its first owner was, why he bought it, when he bought it, how many miles he did in it, how many cylinders it had, how much power each cylinder could produce at so many revs per minute, how long the stroke was, the size of the bore, I guess you’re getting the idea. The bastard just wouldn’t leave me alone.
Christel came along, took one look, burst out laughing, and buggered off leaving me at his mercy. The traitor. Even my silent screams for help behind this guy’s back did nothing to persuade her to come to my rescue. We finally ran out of the building with this guy running along behind still giving a commentary on everything we ran past.
So if you ever get to INVERELL and want to visit the car museum take my advice and ring first and find out if Richard is rostered to work that day.
Wednesday 27th April.
We packed up early and left INVERELL before Richard had a chance to find out where we were staying, and came and gave us some information about our caravan. We had to be in WARWICK by Thursday night, where we had arranged to leave the caravan while we shot over to the GOLD COAST to visit Ron and Leanne.
From INVERELL we travelled east for 70 km to GLEN INNES
and then turned north towards WARWICK about 170 km away. We stopped for lunch in the lovely old town of TENTERFIELD where they make the best pies in Australia.
Shortly after leaving TENTERFIELD we crossed the NSW / Queensland border. That would be the last we would see of NSW on this trip.
We arrived in WARWICK at about 2.30pm and soon found the motor camp we had contacted and arranged to store our van. By a strange coincidence we found that it was the same motor camp we had stayed at when we were last in Australia in July 2009, and did a trip from Ron and Leanne’s, out to TOOWOOMBA, down to WARWICK and back to Ron and Leanne’s.
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