We are at Gundiah on our sons property, "Evergreen". We will be here for the next week while son and DIL take a well earned break. Not that they have ventured very far as they have set up camp on the banks of the Mary River on their own property! It has actually worked out well for all of us as we get to see them as often as we want or need when we have a caretaking question. They have a great camping set-up with their camper trailer and as we all commented yesterday the hardest thing is the setting up and pulling down so when you go camping it's much better to stay for an extended period of time. It's not much different in the caravan I guess. We would prefer to stay in one place for 5-7 days as you really don't want to be setting up every day. Marco and Suzie invited us down to their camp for lunch yesterday where they cooked us a very tasty camp oven meal. We have never used a camp oven so I was very impressed with how fast it cooks in the coals. I think this chicken and vegetable meal took less than two hours. Apparently it is all in having the coals the right temperature.
So, how have we been filling in our days? Very leisurely. I can assure you of that. Philip has been doing all the chores that really don't take up too much time and in between the chores he has been watering and mowing Marco's lemon, grapefruit, fig and pomegranate orchard. This year is their first producing year so it is very exciting for them. They have been disappointed in the figs and will probably remove them as we all know how finicky they are to grow. The worst thing with figs is that once you finally get the fruit, if you're not fast enough to pick them, the birds beat you to it. Marco has had weaners in the yard that need to be tailed out each day so that has also been on the chore list. Philip loves his cattle and has been enjoying this job more than he admits. 😉 But now the weaners are out of the yards and back in the paddock so that job has finished.
We have also been going for long walks most afternoons as it is way too cold for me in the morning. It has been down around the 4-6 degree mark that is quite chilly. Our walk takes us past the dam where two black swans have made themselves at home. They were here for the first few days but have now sadly moved on. I could never close enough to photograph them as they are quite skittish. Philip and I even tried to sneak up on them but they are smarter than us and made their way to the farthest point away from us...
Oh yes, before I go, where have our travels taken us. After we left Cowra our next stop was Coonabarabran, but at a different van park much closer to town so we could walk to town to replenish our perishables.
The following night was Goondiwindi followed by Dalby. We are still only trying to do just a few hundred kilometres between overnight stops so that we have plenty of time each afternoon to do a little washing. That didn't work well for us in Dalby though as we had no sooner set up camp and I had hung out a load of washing when we had a tremendous downpour of rain.
We have decided to extend our time away so that we can be back at "Evergreen" for Marco's 40th birthday party on the 12th June. There are quite a few people coming so it is going to be a camp-out on the banks of the mighty Mary River in one of the many registered HipCamp campsites that M & S have on their property. The camp sites here are fabulous. They are flat and grassed and would put a lot of caravan park sites to shame! But before we get back to "Evergreen" we still have Toowoomba, Bundaberg and Hervey Bay on our list. I think we will definitely be ready to head home after that.......maybe.....😉
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