OOPS!! Backtracking.

I missed  a blog when we left Inskip Point and first headed west so this blog should have been before the last one posted.

27/11/10
Saturday was another beautiful day as we packed up and headed inland via Gympie. First Stop was Kingaroy, Peanut Capital of Australia. The soil here is amazingly red.

We ended up in a small town called Bell in a caravan park called Bells and Whistles. We had a few beers in the local pub which must have been lovely in it's hayday but is pretty run down now.

Looks better in a photo, it's actually very tired looking.



  This is a bottle tree which is reknowned in this area. Isn't it beautiful.

The next day we went off exploring the Bunya Mountains by bike. The roads were very steep, windy and a mixture of rainforests and open plains.


We stopped for fuel and morning tea at Maidenwell and saw a sign : Cooper Falls. So naturally we go to check it out. No where is this listed in any of our tourist brochures and believe me we have heaps, but it was the most beautiful place with houndreds of years old grass trees, large granite boulders and a swimming hole at the bottom of the falls. This place is definately worth a look.

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I don't expect you can notice how fat SS and I are getting???

We should have bought our swimmers, this looked so inviting.

 Back on the Suzuki and after more exploring we see another sign Muntapa Tunnel ( once again no mention by either brochures or Tourist Information) . So we take off down a dirt track to check this out. It's an old railway tunnel which was hand dug back in the early 1900's and is 280 meters long!! We walked through it.
-What an experience - No lights except from either end of the tunnel, plus bats have now made it there home. As we walk through the mud and batshit all we can hear are all their wings flapping, it was soooo eerie.

Our last stop of the day, and this is in all the brochures, is Jimbour Station. It's a beautiful sandstone house built in the late 1800's with beautiful gardens including a kitchen garden and views to die for. Then back to our caravan to watch the sunset, have a few beers, dinner and an early night.

Jimbour House.

The Lady of the house.