Tuesday
5 April 2016 – 167 304 - 39°C
This
morning Drew taught Hayden how to siphon.
We then packed up and said farewell to Evening Star – a great caravan
park! Craig drew us a map of a shortcut
from Evening Star to the Quilpie Road and suggestions of things to do in
Quilpie.
Our first stop in Quilpie was
the local Visitor Information Centre.
They had lovely picnic tables inlaid with images made from cut opal,
they also provided good brochures on the local trees and birds. Hayden voted at a local photo competition and
we had a look through the military museum.
In the street, there were several cattle silhouettes and some great 3D
corrugated iron animal sculptures at the visitor centre.
We are staying at the Channel Country Tourist
Park – we all coped surprisingly well with the heat of setting up in the middle
of the day. http://www.channelcountrytouristpark.com/ After lunch, we set off to
see the sights of Quilpie!
Stop one, St Finbarr’s
Catholic Church – this has a beautiful altar, lectern and baptismal font all
made of opal – absolutely gorgeous!
Stop
two, Quilpie Airport – there was a large information panel on Amy Johnson’s
unscheduled landing at Quilpie. She was
scheduled to land at Charleville, which on her map was shown as the end of the
railway line, however the railway line did in fact continue through to
Quilpie.
Stop three, Baldy Top – this
was hot, steep and had truly millions of flies; however, the distance we could
see was amazing.
Stop four, Quilpie
Council Fossicking Fields – we found some pretty and interesting rocks with
slivers of opal within them. After
thirty minutes, we could not stand the flies any longer and left.
Stop five, Lake Houdraman – this was a
beautiful, peaceful and isolated camping spot.
Drew and Hayden then went for a swim at the local pool, which
surprisingly had free entry. After
dinner, we had a soak in the Artesian Spa in the caravan park.
This was very relaxing, looking up at the amazing number of stars and my
body felt much better for it.
No comments:
Post a Comment