Left Mitchell this morning at 9am (pretty cool last night) after collecting lots of firewood yesterday for a lovely fire last evening, the most terrible road today, going nearly 400km today to Dalby 80km short of Toowoomba. Long day in the car driving for 6 hrs with stops for coffee and lunch, arrived at Dalby and Pioneer c/van park about 3.30pm.
Great to have power and the most remarkable showers we have ever had or seen in any c/van park, motel,hotel anywhere in the world. You could literally put 6 camp chairs and people in each shower, still have space and have a wonderful 'happy hour' in there, they are so big - not that we did of course. But it was so wonderful to have a lovely hot shower even though we had one at the spa yesterday in Mitchell.
The reason for this of course is that the c/van parks cater for a lot of road workers, major road works all along the Warrego hwy. from the floods of 2011 and 2012 and also the mines which are decimating this country. Coal Seam gas here in this region. 170 miners live here in cabins in this c/van park - away from the main c/van areas but there are all these portables popping up all over the central part of Qld.
Only another 300 to get back to Kingscliff now and that will be done and dusted by tomorrow afternoon, will stop at Toowoomba for coffee and then lunch somewhere and so ends 28 days on the road for us, Dave, Val, Misty, Jake, and Dana.
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