Hi again,
We stopped at a free camp a little further up the road and had a lovely relaxing time in Moorolin.
Its a small town with huge empty sheds and long abandoned railway tracks. Ellen was in her element taking photos.
A little walk down the track was a beautiful wetlands, also a great photo opportunity.
It was recommended to us by the tourist information centre back in Nanango to drive via Wondai and see their Tourist info's great display. It was very impressive, huge dioramas depicting life of the timber cutters in early Australia.
Alongside the info centre is a woodworking shop, volunteers are there turning wood and more than happy to chat to you about all the tools and things. Below are little mushroom shaped samples of wood, there must have been a hundred of these little things....so cool.
Below is a rusty looking pieces of chain, on closer examination you will discover its a hand carved piece of wood, with no joins ,awesome. They also had puzzles and things, similarly fashioned from one piece of wood.
We were out the front of the woodworkers when an old bloke directed us to the Museum, Art Gallery and lunch spot.
He boasted that there was a fully set up operating theatre from the 1920s, he wasn't kidding. It was the type of room that you loved or hated. I was the latter, my stomach turned when I walked in at the sight of all the instruments. Ellen on the other hand was fascinated.
It was seriously one of the best museums yet... these little sandshoes had me in awe...so little.
We finished our tour of Wondai with a look around the gallery, these bronze dingoes out the front indicative of the name of this town.
Wondai is aboriginal for dingo or native dog.
We left that little town and headed for Tiaro. This houses we've been told "the best butchers in Qld," we were excited...food tends to do that to us. We stocked up on some meat and headed out to a free camp a little way out of town. When we arrived it was obvious that we couldn't stay there, there were no accessible flat large areas, and we headed back into town and squished into this one.
There was lovely misty sunrises, just across the road and a gathering of really nice people in the camp.
Time to hit the road again.....
till next time
xxxx
Ellen and Michelle
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