Housesitting at Calamvale

August 12th

Our house sit here is fast coming to an end at the beginning of Sept actually. However since being here we have had some nice weather and have really enjoyed being back in shorts and tee shirts and loving the warmer weather. We have been taking Jedda for some good walks which she really loves.
Yasmine and Rory came over for a week and it has been great seeing them, they go home this Wednesday  - where has week gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poppy's New Cover

July 29th:

We left Bribie this morning and both Terry and Patricia were in bed crook with some lurgy, I felt real bad leaving them like that however we were committed to our house sit at Calamvale. We took Poppy to the storage facility at Worrim and she has her new cover on. It should be good as it will keep her
protected and stop birds crapping over her. We had a good run to Calamvale arriving around 1215 collected the key from the girl across the road. We let ourselves in and went to the kitchen window and Jedda saw us and literally sprung up above the window sill. She is a big dog but very well behaved.

Worrim

Tuesday 23rd

The Moyse's are in camp - and here end'th the trip, hope you have enjoyed the photos
and stories that went along with it. Tomorrow we head to Calamvale I guess there will be
some updates and fun when Yas and Rory arrive for a week - cheers all.

Warra to Worrim

Monday 20th:

Waking on Monday morning we packed up and headed to what we thought would be the Caboolture Show grounds where we wanted to camp for 2nights, while at Dalby getting fuel we had a text message from the show grounds replying to Brian's phone call telling us that the show grounds were closed. We rang Terry at Bribie and asked if he could check with the office if we could arrive today 2days earlier. Terry rang back about 30mins later saying it was fine we could get a spot. We arrived at Bribie mid afternoon to find that the office staff and done some re - organising and managed to put us on a site next to Terry and Patricia which was great. We soon settled in and were sitting in Terry & Patricia's gazebo before we knew it having a chat and cuppa.We have had a great 3mths away and are now ready to get ourselves down to Calamvale where we house sat last year for Maria and Graham and cared for their big dog Jedda. While we are at Calamvale Yasmine and Rory are coming over for a week which will be just great. We head to Calamvale on Wednesday 29th, so this is the end of this journey - now what's next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Below two photos are leaving Warra for Worrim

 

A large grain silo spanning the main highway

 

Sorghum wheat field 

Lunch stop at Moore

 

 

 

Warra

July 19th  -                      Happy Birthday Adam

Warra is a town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The town is located in the Western Downs Region local government area and on the Warrego Highway, 256 kilometres north west of the state capital, Brisbane. We found a good spot took no time at all to set up for the night
and soon we were sitting in the sun having a cuppa.

 

 

Roma To A Free Overnighter At Warra

 Sunday 19th

 

This morning we headed from Roma toward our overnight free camp at Warra. A lovely drive although the Warrego Highway was dreadful bumpy and busy with trucks. We pulled into Miles and had lunch on the side of the road opposite the caravan park. We pulled into Warra the free camp around 2.00pm set up camp and sat outside in the sun for a cuppa, we found a nice spot facing out to the open ground and an old unused railway line. Warra has an old historic railway which is well kept. We had 3 other vans camped with us the night it was very noisy from the trucks, the weather was great much warmer.

Below photo is our lunch stop on the side of the Warrego at Miles

Our overnight stop at Warra

Last Day In Roma

Saturday 18th

Last day here in Roma as we head back toward Bribie tomorrow where we are booked in to the caravan park for Wednesday 22nd.

Beautiful Bouganvillia

My herbs are still doing really well since leaving Kallangur in April,

they have been admired and used by us and many campers - they were jealous.

Roma Express

  

The Roma Express is a miniature train that travels a picturesque 1.5km circuit. The track traverses Bungli Creek across the "Bailey Bridge" a pre - fabricated truss bridge created in England and considered one of the great feats of engineering in WW11. The train was imported from England. The train ride was brilliant it was run driven and owned by a dear old chap, he gave us the front seats as he calls them "First Class" with all the passengers aboard we set off for our journey. What an amazing old train with the clickity clack on the tracks we travelled past the Big Rig centre and over the bridge along the side of the river shadowed by huge Ghost Gums.

 

 

3D Mural

 

 

 

 

 

Lenroy Slab Hut

 

 

 

Roma 1

Friday 17th:

Awoke to a nice sunny day but man is that wind cold too cold to sit outside and or do anything outside,Chris had marked a couple of things to see and or do indoors. We ventured off around 1030am to the Big Rig centre.

The year was 1900 and a drilling crew were searching for water on Roma's Hospital Hill. It was hoped that the crew would find a water source suitable to supply the town with water fresh from the Great Artesian Basin. Suddenly the unexpected happened, "strewth, it's gas!!" explained a very surprised driller as gas, mud and water came gushing from the well. With this event, quiet by accident, Australia's oil and gas industry was born. The land that the Big Rig Centre is on belongs to the local tribe - The Mandandanji people are the local custodians of the region surrounding Roma. The Big Rig celebrates the unique history of Australia's oil and gas industry, the Big Rig take you on an amazing journey of Australia's first discovery of petroleum, to the boom and bust years of oil and gas exploration and onto today's multi - billion dollar industry. It is a great experience about the fascinating story of oil and gas, born from the ancient earth, fire and water, a great chance to see how it has changed the way we live. We spent a couple of hours here upon leaving the Big Rig we walked across the car park to the old Historic Lenroy Slab Hut. Built in 1893 the well constructed and preserved slab hut was all completely hand built from local timber to house a family of 11. The basic structure is as it was built more than 100 years ago ( the only thing that has been replaced is the verandah). On the way back to the van we made our way to the Cultural Centre to see the Three Dimensional Mural

The amazing mural contains 17 elements and is interpreted by means of an audio and moving light show, the mural was amazing however the lights were not working and the audio was not loud enough to hear. The mural gives an overview of the history, industry and culture of Roma and its district. We came back to the van where we had a cuppa and sandwich it is way to chilly to sit outside. Tomorrow we will go back to the Big Rig and do the train ride on the "Roma Express" all for the cost of $2ea - last of the big spenders.